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Hurry Back
Here are Alvin Greenberg's poems of experience, his grown man's tribute to negative capability. He knows we live in a world of indeterminacy, with our various ignorances and failures of language. Yet without prettying-up these conditions, his "Hurry Back" offers an unsentimental, clear-eyed paean to them, a kind of elegiac lean-to/set right out in the weather because the weather's/what there is and where we do our loving." Though such sagacity pervades this book, these are not poems of resignation.
The poems in Hurry Back comprise a multi-dimensional meditation. The poet builds “a kind of elegiac lean-to” within which readers dwell, while he explores “history/ with its cords of bodies stacked behind the house.” He conjures the Ohio of his boyhood during WWII and “the camps, the camps that no one quite believed in.”
The poems in Hurry Back comprise a multi-dimensional meditation. The poet builds “a kind of elegiac lean-to” within which readers dwell, while he explores “history/ with its cords of bodies stacked behind the house.” He conjures the Ohio of his boyhood during WWII and “the camps, the camps that no one quite believed in.”
64 pages, Paperback
First published May 1, 2005
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December 22, 2010
Nice collection of poems by this Idahoan. Winner of the The Idaho Prize 2004.
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