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Figures from the Undergrowth
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Donald Armfield’s immunity to the hurricane named Lucifer who drags people to Hell is what allows him to write the kind of poetry that gets underneath your skin, and sends an electric shock through the reader’s veins. “Figures From the Undergrowth” is a one-of-a-kind collection of material that should find a home on any serious poetry connosure's bookshelf. “A surrealistic monster, full of poetic transgressions, marching straight into the reader’s mind and shaking the cerebral cortex until it’s splintered and broken.
Donald Armfield’s immunity to the hurricane named Lucifer who drags people to Hell is what allows him to write the kind of poetry that gets underneath your skin, and sends an electric shock through the reader’s veins. “Figures From the Undergrowth” is a one-of-a-kind collection of material that should find a home on any serious poetry connosure's bookshelf. “A surrealistic monster, full of poetic transgressions, marching straight into the reader’s mind and shaking the cerebral cortex until it’s splintered and broken.
- GenresPoetry
62 pages, Paperback
First published April 7, 2018
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About the author
Donald Armfield
67 books176 followersThe head honcho of Hybrid Sequence Media and a writer of mind leakage, turned ink—to scribble with and display its horrors of its own kind.
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May 13, 2018
"Figures from th undergrowth" is a powerful collection, full of vivid and sometimes shocking images. It is a journey through a Surrealistic kind of Hell, simultaneously beautiful and disturbing. A true, original voice in the poetic horror landscape.
May 14, 2018
I really like this unique collection of poetry. I took my time with it, and I’m grateful I did. I feel the book takes some cues from surrealism and the gothic tradition in literature, but I would say even with that knowledge, the influences remain elusive. In other words Mr. Armfield has a very unique voice, and a knack for writing poems.
I like the way the book is structured, like a symphony. The book is both dense and simple, complex and singular, the poetry spoke to me with a gentle tone and serious subject matter. I wish I could write like this because it is so very eloquent. I’ll be recommending it to people, books like this deserve to be published because they offer something new and visionary.
This is an important book in my collection because it really offers something new.
The style resonated with me as poetry because the book offers nuance, imagery, and symbolism. The poems themselves are so detailed, and many times I felt sucked into the poem and the poetic world being created, and offered to the reader. And the images are something to remember:
“A generated cemetery, sowing the landscape with blood within minutes. Nowadays those faces, haunt our dreams.’
“my feet begin to burn, looking down at the smoke that rises from between my toes then I burn and wither away ...”
Favorites include Figures from the Undergrowth (for self-titled symphonic complexity), Wither and Burn (for the gentleness of tone), Origami Death, Pain (an emotional punch), and I’ll be spending more time with these poems for sure. Figures from the Undergrowth is a sophisticated and moving collection, and I highly recommend it.
I like the way the book is structured, like a symphony. The book is both dense and simple, complex and singular, the poetry spoke to me with a gentle tone and serious subject matter. I wish I could write like this because it is so very eloquent. I’ll be recommending it to people, books like this deserve to be published because they offer something new and visionary.
This is an important book in my collection because it really offers something new.
The style resonated with me as poetry because the book offers nuance, imagery, and symbolism. The poems themselves are so detailed, and many times I felt sucked into the poem and the poetic world being created, and offered to the reader. And the images are something to remember:
“A generated cemetery, sowing the landscape with blood within minutes. Nowadays those faces, haunt our dreams.’
“my feet begin to burn, looking down at the smoke that rises from between my toes then I burn and wither away ...”
Favorites include Figures from the Undergrowth (for self-titled symphonic complexity), Wither and Burn (for the gentleness of tone), Origami Death, Pain (an emotional punch), and I’ll be spending more time with these poems for sure. Figures from the Undergrowth is a sophisticated and moving collection, and I highly recommend it.
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