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Raptors
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With tragicomic bravado and psychological insight, this collection paints a turbulent portrait of a father and his family, creating a poetic sequence that has the scope of a novel and stretches the sense of what is possible in poetry. Each poem is presented as an improvisation on the theme of the father, forming a picture of a family held hostage by the mood swings and histrionics of this patriarch. Combining intense speed and surprise with moments of sudden slowness, this compilation has the flavor and intensity of a modern classic.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Toon Tellegen
was a diamond in the dirt
found among the library for sale books
Toon Tellegen
makes silk purses out of sows' ears
that is to say
he takes popular phrases and cliches
and turns them into something strange and new
like 'my mother was a train...
my father hallowed her name'
This reader
was a pig in mud.
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