Aggregate of Disturbances

by Michele Glazer

Here, the author confronts the slipperiness of language and perception as she probes natural processes - the lives of insects, the uncertainty of love and the deaths of human beings. The poems negotiate between desire for something irrefutable and an uneasy bedrock of paradox.

Genres: Poetry

68 pages, Paperback

First published April 1, 2004

Reviews

[Jen · Rating 3 out of 5]

I admired Glazer's language, her exploration of physicality on the edge of or just slipping over into death. Strangely, I was reading this collection of poems at the exact moment that I learned of a friend's passing, and her pages then took on a greater resonance, cutting deeper as I found myself questioning my own mortality, my own sense of loss, and the general binds to this world of ours which are so tenaciously physical, as she so aptly captures in this work. A lovely collection.

[Bjorn Sorensen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Glazer's first book is high on the bar graph for compassion - "Aggregate" takes it a step further, with consistent themes being death and the grinding uncertainties of romantic relationships. I would like to see more prose poems and more accessibility in the language, but Glazer's poems are incredibly rewarding on a 2nd or 3rd reading. This is a author with a sharp mind, a style all her own and a huge heart.