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Friendly Fire: Poems
""Friendly Fire," Katrina Roberts' cycle of fifty-two sonnets, proves the durability and flexibility of the lyric today. A taut narrative scaffolding supports Roberts' brief, searing meditations on family, farm labor, friendship, illness, parenting. Colloquial language lends verve. Literal images evoke the texture of farm life.
These new poems are wonderfully readable and engrossing, because they are so true to our conscious experience, making swift and credible transitions between perception, memory, reflection, worry, and well-being. Life is both sweet and anxious in these poems, which makes them the more real, and the pervading theme of fire has the ambiguity of Shakespeare’s ‘Consumed with that which it was nourish’d by.’
These new poems are wonderfully readable and engrossing, because they are so true to our conscious experience, making swift and credible transitions between perception, memory, reflection, worry, and well-being. Life is both sweet and anxious in these poems, which makes them the more real, and the pervading theme of fire has the ambiguity of Shakespeare’s ‘Consumed with that which it was nourish’d by.’
- GenresPoetry
60 pages, Paperback
First published January 14, 2008
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September 4, 2008
This book of poems by Katrina Roberts, published by Lost Horse Press, is a study in sonnet forms and a collage of poems wrapped in hard hitting and sensuous images of daily life, fleeting understandings, the darkness of deep ideas. Roberts challenges the canons of philosophy at every turn, her words pause the reader to ponder further. Lovely lovely and straight to the heart.
August 12, 2009
A book that powerfully shows how conflict always begins close to home. Great book.
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