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Shakespeare & Stein Walk Into A Bar
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781941550793
Publisher: Spuyten Duyvil
Published: May 16 2016
Pages: 116
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Katherine Hastings' poems play with consciousness on many levels. Nature, literature, and human experience catch memorably within the threads of their dense and startling webs.
Annie Finch
Shakespeare and Stein Walk into a Bar is animated by the two most rewarding and replenishing of poetic forces: dexterous formal diversity and a fierce, unflinching searching. Where to go from here? the book begins, lifting us through the world we've left to ourselves and singing us at last to the still point where We, too, dissolve with all of it finding its way - somewhere. Shakespeare and Stein Walk into a Bar is more than a collection of poems; it is a quest fulfilled by destination.
Dear William Shakespeare, an heiress has appeared! Historians can't trace the Bard's descendants too far after his daughters, but a Shakespearean sonneteer has mysteriously reappeared in the form of Katherine Hastings and her wildly compelling sonnets. What eloquence! What originality! And what poems for the ages!
Lee Slonimsky
Whether she is exploring memory or embracing loss or love, Katherine Hastings so fully inhabits these poems that the reader is allowed to surrender to her deft use of language and embark on a journey of the soul, filled with a radiance of spirit that transcends the everyday routines of life, ..last night in moonlight, long fingers/of trees signed their language/ the way deaf women sing..., and There is nowhere to go/but here on a corner with the unblessed/supplementing Social Security, /our shadows merged on hard pavement... Finally, these are poems that offer a luminous stillness, mysterious yes, but filled with exquisitely articulated moments that are pitch-perfect.
Devreaux Baker
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