Our Father in the Year of the Wolf By Dave Harrity
Our Father in the Year of the Wolf By Dave Harrity Paperback 1602260168 9781602260160 Our Father in the Year of the Wolf Our Father in the Year of the Wolf tells the story of a cursed father and son monsters forced to relive the sins of generations past. Through cyclical, lyric poems, Dave Harrity deftly braids together motifs from horror, pop culture and biblical literature into a winding and complex narrative about the trauma and fragmentation of a rural family, our animal commonness, the chaos of our hidden violence and the brutalities of our histories come back to haunt us. Fellow poet Matthew Lippman says, [This] is one of the most playful and profound books of poetry that I have come across in a long time. Its title includes the father and the wolf as iconic figures of transformation that play off of one another in a duality of the spirit human and animal. Dave Harrity pushes, thematically, a force, a gust of primal vision, through these poems with such a tender ferocity that one is hard pressed to put the book down while figuring out how to breathe. Harrity is a visionary poet in the spirit of Blake and Rilke and Sexton. He injects the English language with a dreamcatchers colorful twine. That is, these poems play with language to get at the center of a psycho spiritual reckoning. They are wickedly primordial, and that is what I love about them most. They have weight and body and funk, and they billow. When you read them you want to eat and scream, preen and sex. As the wolf, as the father, Harrity wants to open your door and . kiss all your people. Eat them too, devour as food and as celebration, a celebration of the human condition. These poems devour what is beautiful and dangerous in this living life. They are from the head and the heart of a man who is steeple and church, who is body and trope, who is father and who is wolf; and you should read them all, in a hammock, by the campfire under stars, and on the subway, at rush hour, where the throng of human stinks the best.
Our Father in the Year of the Wolf tells the story of a cursed father and son monsters forced to relive the sins of generations past Through cyclical lyric poems Dave Harrity deftly braids together motifs from horror pop culture and biblical literature into a winding and complex narrative about the trauma and fragmentation of a rural family our animal commonness the chaos of our hidden violence and the brutalities of our histories come back to haunt us Fellow poet Matthew Lippman says This is one of the most playful and profound books of poetry that I have come across in a long time Its title includes the father and the wolf as iconic figures of transformation that play off of one another in a duality of the spirit human and animal Dave Harrity pushes thematically a force a gust of primal vision through these poems with such a tender ferocity that one is hard pressed to put the book down while figuring out how to breathe Harrity is a visionary poet in the spirit of Blake and Rilke and Sexton He injects the English language with a dreamcatcher s colorful twine That is these poems play with language to get at the center of a psycho spiritual reckoning They are wickedly primordial and that is what I love about them most They have weight and body and funk and they billow When you read them you want to eat and scream preen and sex As the wolf as the father Harrity wants to open your door and kiss all your people Eat them too devour as food and as celebration a celebration of the human condition These poems devour what is beautiful and dangerous in this living life They are from the head and the heart of a man who is steeple and church who is body and trope who is father and who is wolf and you should read them all in a hammock by the campfire under stars and on the subway at rush hour where the throng of human stinks the best Our Father in the Year of the Wolf.
So layered Paperback My favorite poems in this fine collection are Her Snow Globe and His Ministries Also really love Eggshells Around His House Reverberation What Is Done So Easily in the Left Is Left Men in Masks the title poem and Meadowland Paperback
| Our Father in the Year of the Wolf By Dave Harrity |
| 1602260168 |
| 9781602260160 |
| English |
| 71 |
| Paperback |
Our Father in the Year of the Wolf tells the story of a cursed father and son monsters forced to relive the sins of generations past Through cyclical lyric poems Dave Harrity deftly braids together motifs from horror pop culture and biblical literature into a winding and complex narrative about the trauma and fragmentation of a rural family our animal commonness the chaos of our hidden violence and the brutalities of our histories come back to haunt us Fellow poet Matthew Lippman says This is one of the most playful and profound books of poetry that I have come across in a long time Its title includes the father and the wolf as iconic figures of transformation that play off of one another in a duality of the spirit human and animal Dave Harrity pushes thematically a force a gust of primal vision through these poems with such a tender ferocity that one is hard pressed to put the book down while figuring out how to breathe Harrity is a visionary poet in the spirit of Blake and Rilke and Sexton He injects the English language with a dreamcatcher s colorful twine That is these poems play with language to get at the center of a psycho spiritual reckoning They are wickedly primordial and that is what I love about them most They have weight and body and funk and they billow When you read them you want to eat and scream preen and sex As the wolf as the father Harrity wants to open your door and kiss all your people Eat them too devour as food and as celebration a celebration of the human condition These poems devour what is beautiful and dangerous in this living life They are from the head and the heart of a man who is steeple and church who is body and trope who is father and who is wolf and you should read them all in a hammock by the campfire under stars and on the subway at rush hour where the throng of human stinks the best Our Father in the Year of the Wolf.