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Ruth Ellen Kocher

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Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of six previous books, including domina Un/blued (Tupelo Press, 2013), co-winner of the PEN American Center's 2014 Open Book Award. Her poems have appeared in many anthologies and journals, and she has been awarded fellowships from the Cave Canem Foundation, the mostrar mais Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets, and Yaddo. She teaches Poetry, Poetics, and Literature at the University of Colorado, and she is a Contributing Editor at Poets Writers Magazine. mostrar menos

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domina Un/blued is as visceral a work of experimental, avant-garde work as I've come across, which helped me connect with the text in moments where I was perplexed. Often I thought I was reading a treatise on how to survive or how one did in the midst of atrocity.
 
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b.masonjudy | 1 outra resenha | Apr 3, 2020 |
In the anti-aesthetic shatter of the post-post-post, any art that is at all representational, any language that is at all eloquent, any verse that is at all unified is at best suspect, and at worst disrespected.

In the best poems in this collection, Kocher makes good use of the shatter to unveil the slave/dominant relationship, whether individual or societal. Perhaps despite herself, some lines approach a kind of eloquence.

Then there are “Un/blued” which repeats E/empire empire Empire over and over in three columns. I get it. I get it. I get it.

The extravagant use of white space mostly works to convey the shatter as well. Such use can be mere laziness, but that does not seem so here. The theme of domination/slavery also mostly works, approaching a versified “Fifty Shades” but not falling into it. Sometimes the fragmentation of dialogue conveys the shatter. Other times it seems pseudo-Wasteland.

All in all, I would argue that readers of poetry should spend one trip though this collection. It is very much worth one reading. Some poems merit rereading, such as:

“Near Torre Argentina”
“Exercise 17”
“D/domina: Daughter”
“D/domina: Forgetting the Tree”

and especially “D/domina: Issues Involving Interpretation”




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dasam | 1 outra resenha | Jul 25, 2017 |

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