five-cent review #7
(reviews in five sentences or less)
Jim Harrison’s and Ted Kooser’s Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry (Copper Canyon, 2003)
Brief, poignant musings exchanged between poet pals -- on nature, aging, joy, dogs, daily routines. The lack of attribution means the words take center stage, freed from the distraction of credentials and dates. Among my favorites lines: “Straining on the toilet we learn how the lightning bug feels,” “A coffin handle leaves a lasting impression on a hand,” and "If you can awaken inside the familiar and discover it strange you need never leave home." At a mere 85 pages, I squeezed this one in during my lunch-hour, between bites of a bologna sandwich. It's been some time since I felt so full.
Jim Harrison’s and Ted Kooser’s Braided Creek: A Conversation in Poetry (Copper Canyon, 2003)
Brief, poignant musings exchanged between poet pals -- on nature, aging, joy, dogs, daily routines. The lack of attribution means the words take center stage, freed from the distraction of credentials and dates. Among my favorites lines: “Straining on the toilet we learn how the lightning bug feels,” “A coffin handle leaves a lasting impression on a hand,” and "If you can awaken inside the familiar and discover it strange you need never leave home." At a mere 85 pages, I squeezed this one in during my lunch-hour, between bites of a bologna sandwich. It's been some time since I felt so full.
posted by caleb d. at 5:33 AM
2 Comments:
I've read this book and really loved it. I can see myself reading it again and again. I really loved the one about those awful trailer home fires sparing the inhabitants the judgements of the rich. Man...
I hear you, torch. So short, so dead-on. Almost every one lifted me out of my chair.
I like these as well:
"Every time I've had a sea change, I thought I was dying. I probably was."
and
"Mirrors have always given the wrong impression of me. So do other people. So do I. Let's stop this right now."
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