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Some Divine Commotion by David Denny
Dana Gioia has described David Denny as “a poet who finds the miraculous in everyday experience.” To be sure, there are poems in this new collection that reveal the numinous with startling precision. But Some Divine Commotion also expands Denny’s poetic territory into internal and external realms not commonly explored in contemporary verse. Each of the book’s sections examines large themes—love and loss, imagination and spirituality, art and nature—in unexpected ways, ranging in style from lyrical rumination to extended narrative to pithy dialogue. By turns witty, sad, playful, and wise, these poems carry their wisdom lightly, never failing to entertain. Reading this book, we hear the voice of a versatile American poet singing his redemption songs. POETRY / General ISBN: 978-1-947067-18-9 (print; softcover; perfect bound) Released 10-10-2017 130 pages |
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“In his fine new collection of poems, Some Divine Commotion, David Denny writes about things that matter — rats in the attic, Richard Brautigan, emotional water-boarding, Janet Leigh’s body-double — in resonant, carefully crafted language that any literate person can understand and take pleasure in. That, for me, is the best kind of poetry.” “I love the hunger in Denny’s poems — the easy, deep talk, a Cubist Apollinaire swaggin’ down Lombard, the groovy Brouhaha and the daring — in these times of tight lines and elegant ornament. You go in, then every poem is an akimbo figure in ten directions, a xylophone Zen, Baudelaire, Godzilla and the woman in Matisse’s Fauvist eyeball. What a palette, a lush surrealist Benjamin Peret perhaps — explosive, experimental before you notice it — it leaves you painting and panting. Lovely canvases of stardom and the solar delights your soul has been craving!” |
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