[New-Poetry] Deborah Garrison

[Linda Sue Grimes]

I'll take the "sweet one" over the "strange mother" even in writing.  Sorry, 
Emily--your preference for the bi-polar goddess is weird and a tad 
unbelievable. (No pun intended.)

Jai Guru!
Linda Sue
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Linda Sue Grimes
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> Emily Bussbaum in the NY Times on Garrison's new book:
>
> As the many fans of her first book would attest, the strength of Garrison’s 
> poems is their ordinariness, in both language and subject matter. They are 
> not pretentious. They speak to the reader directly: this is a conversation 
> with a likable next-door neighbor rather than a scary visitation from a 
> bipolar goddess. But this ordinariness is also Garrison’s weakness, and in 
> “The Second Child” it can be glaring. Many of these poems are simply 
> anecdotes of children being adorably profound: asking questions about 
> death, struggling with the concept of infinity. Elsewhere, Garrison 
> strives to celebrate domestic life but settles instead for cliché, as in 
> one poem where she longs for more “voices that pierce / my heart utterly.”
>
> ...
>
> It’s unfair, of course, to expect Garrison to be like Plath. She has her 
> own gifts and an audience sure to appreciate them. In real life, I’d 
> rather have a likable next-door neighbor than a bipolar goddess as a 
> confidante. But in writing? Give me the strange mother over the sweet one 
> any day.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/books/review/Nussbaum.t.html?ref=review
>
>
>
> -- 
> Tad Richards
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>
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