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Only the Questions Are Eternal and Other Poems
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February 20, 2016 This little chapbook is the Spring 2015 issue of Southern-Land Poets, and features love and love-related poetry by David Adès, an Australian poet who has been living in Pittsburgh the last few years. Sadly, for Pittsburgh, he's returning to his native continent in the near future.
I admire David's mixture of straightforward honesty and narrative restraint. "The House I Built" evokes all sorts of incomplete relationships, giving us enough to know what he's talking about, without being entirely specific. "Staring at an Unblinking Eye" with its "The heart breaks/and keeps breaking" breaks the reader's heart, yet never reveals anything specific.
"Poem for Stephen" and "The Bridge I Must Walk Across" shift the second half of the collection to Death, and what Love does with that. Those two are strong, and I'll be rereading this brief collection; and teaching some of the poems to my students.
A couple of the rhymed pieces felt slightly forced, but I never know if that's my modern American natural reaction to rhyme, or really true. So.
Recommended, if you can get your hands on a copy.
I admire David's mixture of straightforward honesty and narrative restraint. "The House I Built" evokes all sorts of incomplete relationships, giving us enough to know what he's talking about, without being entirely specific. "Staring at an Unblinking Eye" with its "The heart breaks/and keeps breaking" breaks the reader's heart, yet never reveals anything specific.
"Poem for Stephen" and "The Bridge I Must Walk Across" shift the second half of the collection to Death, and what Love does with that. Those two are strong, and I'll be rereading this brief collection; and teaching some of the poems to my students.
A couple of the rhymed pieces felt slightly forced, but I never know if that's my modern American natural reaction to rhyme, or really true. So.
Recommended, if you can get your hands on a copy.
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