Michael McGriff
Autor(a) de Home Burial (Lannan Literary Selections)
About the Author
Image credit: By Larry D. Moore, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36910760
Obras de Michael McGriff
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- McGriff, Michael
- Outros nomes
- MacGriff, Michael
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Local de nascimento
- Coos Bay, Oregon, USA
- Locais de residência
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Ocupação
- dichter
- Organizações
- University of Texas at Austin
Membros
Resenhas
Prêmios
Estatísticas
- Obras
- 7
- Membros
- 87
- Popularidade
- #211,168
- Avaliação
- 4.0
- Resenhas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 10
So many poets today strain to juxtapose images in an attempt at some kind of surrealism--and most often fail. McGriff's imagery seems right even as it causes you to gasp at what has been gathered together in a sentence or a phrase:
the outline of your face
is sky-written in the black loam
of thunderheads.
Another example:
because the river's teeth
still gnash
against [the horse's] flank
and its eyes
stil have the luster
of black china
glowing black-bright
in the glass hutch of memory
The imagery is both from nature and domestic life, putting himself, his wife, their relationship and their daily living deep into the natural world--as it should be.
A fine a small collection to be savored.… (mais)