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Backwards Days
Another set of antidotal lyrics and story-poems from Stuart Dischell
Sly, comic, inventive, and exuberant, the brokenhearted lyrics and dark parables of Backwards Days are cast in the spirit and craft Stuart Dischell's poetry is known for. In this, his fourth full-length collection, he revs up both music and experience and writes startling poems of emotional intensity that chronicle the restlessness of desire. Sometimes grim, ever buoyant and hopeful, even in the most sorrowful or macabre situations, the poems of Backwards Days are most particularly about the movement of time, physical movement, and the movement of the heart. Through landscapes both real and of the psyche, they live on the edge of an elusive understanding never quite gotten right.
Sly, comic, inventive, and exuberant, the brokenhearted lyrics and dark parables of Backwards Days are cast in the spirit and craft Stuart Dischell's poetry is known for. In this, his fourth full-length collection, he revs up both music and experience and writes startling poems of emotional intensity that chronicle the restlessness of desire. Sometimes grim, ever buoyant and hopeful, even in the most sorrowful or macabre situations, the poems of Backwards Days are most particularly about the movement of time, physical movement, and the movement of the heart. Through landscapes both real and of the psyche, they live on the edge of an elusive understanding never quite gotten right.
- GenresPoetry
80 pages, Paperback
First published October 2, 2007
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May 17, 2017
There are some really great poems in this book. The titular poem "Backwards Days" is by far the best, but there are others - wry, strange, honest - not easily categorized or dismissed. Closest resemblance I can think of is maybe Denis Johnson or Dean Young. It's worth a buy. Shelve it and pick it up again the next time your day turns upside down - or backwards.
April 12, 2008
Such a lovely, lonely, heartbroken book. One of my favorite lines: "You are paddling the canoe / And I am taking your picture because when / I cannot touch you I take your picture." Two poems I really loved were "She Put On Her Lipstick in the Dark" and "The Interrupted Sleep of Skeletons". But there was a lot to love. By far my favorite of Stuart's books.
February 22, 2008
One of the best poetry books ever! The author is a true and genuine individual, this shows through out his work. I had the wonderful experience of attending one of his readings... I will remember it forever.
March 28, 2008
A former professor, a currently outstanding poet.
January 13, 2011
my cup of tea.
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