The Frame Called Ruin (New Issues Poetry & Prose) by Hadara Bar-Nadav

by Hadara Bar-Nadav

Poetry. "In Hadara Bar-Nadav's poetry, ruin gives birth to blossoms, and broken glass gives rise to temples of a thousand shining windows. In the presence of death, under the aegis of catastrophe, everything comes alive. This is not merely the art of affirmation; this is the poetry of fierce abandonment to Being. In THE FRAME CALLED RUIN, our souls are shown, thank God, to be both weightless and 'Everything unbuttons and we / forget about war.' Bar-Nadav has made a book of miracles."—Donald Revell"Space is at the center of this gorgeously sculpted book, whether it's the torn spaces left behind by war or the polished spaces of contemporary architecture or the bottomless rectangles of Rothko canvases. Bar-Nadav approaches them all with an ekphrastic eye, negotiating them through agile juxtapositions and a balance of sharp clarity and evocative ambiguity. Each poem is a gem."—Cole Swensen

Genres: Poetry

Mass Market Paperback

First published October 1, 2012

Reviews

[RedScarySpice · Rating 5 out of 5]

New favorite poet.

[Brian Wasserman · Rating 2 out of 5]

had promise, the first poem, "write paris out of the pictures" is so good as if the reader is led through a contemporary land of hieronymous bosch, hellish, brutal, deeply visceral. Alas like many poets the poetry is too focused on the now, too many contemporary allusions. Also chunky paragraph poetry form is ugly and uneasy on the eyes.