· “In Animal Eye, once again, we come to this single realization: Paisley Rekdal’s gifts as poet and intellectual are intractable and manifold. With all of their rhetorical pleasures and illustrative rhythms, Rekdal’s poems are deeply marked by a sensate, near terrestrial, relationship to language such that she refreshes and renews debates about beauty, suffering, and art for the twenty-first-century Pages: In her poems, Rekdal becomes aware of herself as Berger describes, returning the gaze of animals. Then, Rekdal goes farther. She initiates the gaze with animals—especially the hooved and avian—later with other humans, and, with mesmeric authority, the reader. In those moments when the eyes meet, the poet finds something familiar in each being, finds that she can become another, can lock into its point Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. Paisley Rekdal is the author of a book of essays, The Night My Mother Met Bruce Lee; the hybrid photo-text memoir, Intimate; and five books of poetry: A Crash of Rhinos; Six Girls Without Pants; The Invention of the Kaleidoscope; Animal Eye, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize and winner of the UNT Rilke Prize; and Imaginary Vessels, finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Prize and the Washington State .
Paisley Rekdal's newest book of poems is called Animal Eye. You can read the poem you just heard and a few others by Paisley on our website, www.doorway.ru Let us know what you think of this program, email us at [email protected]. Berger's comment returned to me while reading Paisley Rekdal's fourth collection of poetry, Animal Eye. Berger glosses, "Other animals are held by the look," but man "becomes aware of himself returning the look.". In her poems, Rekdal becomes aware of herself as Berger describes, returning the gaze of animals. Then, Rekdal goes farther. While reading Paisley Rekdal's Animal Eye, I was forced to wrestle with my own skewed notions of www.doorway.ru personal distaste for warm fuzzies emerged as I began to admire poetry in high school. I wanted to separate verse from the sugar-sticky coating that all of my peers focused on, whether through love or liberal daydreaming of a more elegant world.
In her poems, Rekdal becomes aware of herself as Berger describes, returning the gaze of animals. Then, Rekdal goes farther. She initiates the gaze with animals—especially the hooved and avian—later with other humans, and, with mesmeric authority, the reader. In those moments when the eyes meet, the poet finds something familiar in each being, finds that she can become another, can lock into its point of view, if only she wills it. Paisley Rekdal’s Animal Eye is a collection of poems that stimulates the mind and spirit: "What we know is that frivolities we depend on most can't embed themselves; remain. But what we fear is another kind of change: that difference simmers in the very flesh, experience curdled into the thought that tears us, slowly into self- aware parts.”. Paisley Rekdal's book of poems, Animal Eye, is a success! A well crafted volume of "dirty yellow." And a well-of-spring-water written book of nature's promise, a promising future for all. The poems "Happiness" "Dragonfly" are sky high and emblematic. "Happiness" talks of the garden tended by the poet. The growth and death is yellow and green.
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