What Must Arise poems Donald Beagle 9781618460264 Books
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"...WHAT MUST ARISE is worth the wait an achievement both impressive and hugely enjoyable. Donald Beagle has the rare ability to involve the reader with the poem, revealing that things of which we haven't been aware deeply matter to us. This book will surely be among the outstanding poetry titles of its year..." --X. J. Kennedy
What Must Arise poems Donald Beagle 9781618460264 Books
I think that most of us would agree that poetry, to some degree, is a confessional art form. Should we read these secrets? Can we possibly understand what they mean? Or, at least, what they seem to point toward? And so it is with Don Beagle's slim volume of secrets. I liked them all, but I confess that my favorites (Home Movie, Fossils, The One Room School, and The Night Watchman) felt more accessible and familiar than some of the others. Nonetheless, I was fascinated, even if I didn't understand fully, by the power of Hypatia Come to Chapel Hill, and Four Fantasias on Lines By Tamsin Smith. These poems are secret and revelatory, accepting and provocative. Their and structure and meaning sometimes so tightly coiled, it feels indecent to try to uncoil them. Poems to be read and reread.Product details
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What Must Arise poems Donald Beagle 9781618460264 Books Reviews
Donald Beagle has a stunning way of merging words to paint vivid images. A journey worth taking. Simply lovely.
Such elegant, lovely, resounding poems. A treat.
If you love American poetry, buy this book! Donald Beagle captures life experiences both deeply personal, like the birth of his daughter, and cosmopolitan, like the celebration of New Year's Eve in a Manhattan Penthouse, with the skill of an accomplished poet while remaining approachable. Readers will appreciate both his sense of humor and his use of symbolism as well as his deeper insight into the human experience as only a poet can offer.
I inherited a cabinet from my mother that we now use to house her set of crystal goblets, flutes, and wine glasses. This cabinet has mirrors inside, so that the light reflects back and forth from the crystal and the mirror, creating prismatic glints that give the illusion the stemware is alive with all the colors inherent in a brilliant diamond.
This image came to mind when I read a line in Donald Beagle’s poem, The Jellyfish. This is his description of floating in the ocean offshore from Hilton Head Island. “The water was bright as crystal in mirrored cabinetry.” I knew immediately what he was talking about. I could imagine floating on my back, seeing the blinding light that comes off the crest of the small waves, and then closing my eyes against the glare.
This is the power of words under the command of a master poet. What Must Arise, poems by Donald Beagle, is a treasure trove of the most perfectly constructed imagery, the words selected with care because of their beauty, their musicality, and their ability in a few short syllables to evoke vivid images in the mind of the reader. I’ve underlined many such selections in What Must Arise, and here are some of my favorites
**From Swans “The silver S-curves of their necks cast question marks into the air and then reverse course, as though answerable only to themselves.” (this is the most perfect description of swans I’ve ever come across).
**From On Whitefish Bay “At last the sun emerges. Its bald head crowns out of the hollow sky over the bay, while the river and I wait for something, anything, everything, to reawaken.”
**From The Tin God, in reference to Trump “Nothing like the real One, he’s a nothing wrapped in a suit of tin, his hair the tint of urine, tinctured with the scent of gin he is normally worshipped with.” (you have to admire the wordplay in “tint of urine, tinctured…”)
**From The Superman Blues “So mighty, so weak, in Nietzsche’s bipolar fantasy, he stands, trapped between the transcendental, waking state and just staying awake; the last hope from which the neurotic ape that he is, under the cape, is born and then immediately desires to die, retreating into the hypnotic glow of kryptonite.”
Does Superman deserve such a lofty, poetic paean? Absolutely! Superman is an American cultural icon with eighty years of history behind him, known throughout the world. He is as much an emblem of America as the Statue of Liberty or Mount Rushmore, and Donald Beagle does him great service by summarizing in one beautiful sentence everything there is to know about this mysterious Man of Steel, invulnerable yet vulnerable at any moment to one elemental substance. And if you are going to pay tribute to Superman, what better way than to offer up to him this clever line, “waking state and just staying awake,” combining a play on rhyme and meaning.
There are other heroes in Donald Beagle’s life, in those poems which are deeply personal to him such as The Lost Sister. In this poem, Beagle pays tribute to his sister Beverly, where he recounts his learning of her incurable lung cancer, just before she enters hospice. He has several poems devoted to his wife, an artist of tremendous creativity who has battled multiple sclerosis as she strives to channel her talents into new directions that do not depend on trembling hands and fingers. Beagle mentions his own scrapes with death, or the joy experienced at the birth of his daughter.
There is also intellectualism at work here. Not the sterile intellectualism of a pedant, but the curiosity of a poet with multiple interests. It helps to know a little something about Hypatia, and the terrible thing that happened to her in ancient Alexandria (Hypatia Comes to Chapel Hill). Understanding something of what two bicyclists accomplished at Kitty Hawk (Kitty Hawk), or the polyphonic beauties of Bach’s keyboard music (On Performing Bach’s Dorian Toccata), is useful but not essential to enjoying these poems. If a poet isn’t challenging you on several levels – emotionally, intellectually, and artistically – he or she is not doing their job.
What Must Arise is short, as is true of most poetry collections, but in these 78 pages lies as much or more beauty than you are likely to find in an 800 page best-selling novel. I read through these poems three times, to enjoy the stories, the images, the cleverness, and the sheer beauty of the language. It was then that I felt myself ready to write a short review, to encourage others to pick up What Must Arise. Each of these poems will leave you marveling at the talent of a wordsmith who knows, as all great poets do, how to convey a thought or an image in the most delicious arrangement of words possible.
I think that most of us would agree that poetry, to some degree, is a confessional art form. Should we read these secrets? Can we possibly understand what they mean? Or, at least, what they seem to point toward? And so it is with Don Beagle's slim volume of secrets. I liked them all, but I confess that my favorites (Home Movie, Fossils, The One Room School, and The Night Watchman) felt more accessible and familiar than some of the others. Nonetheless, I was fascinated, even if I didn't understand fully, by the power of Hypatia Come to Chapel Hill, and Four Fantasias on Lines By Tamsin Smith. These poems are secret and revelatory, accepting and provocative. Their and structure and meaning sometimes so tightly coiled, it feels indecent to try to uncoil them. Poems to be read and reread.
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