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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. "This is a poem about what can happen between a thought and a simple act between thoughts and about the way a poem too becomes mad and the writer simply chants between words and throws out fire between words too warm in the throat and too white for the eyes and this too becomes a poem about what can happen to a poem between a thought and a single word we call mad" --Charles Fort, excerpt "Poem for the Mad" no reviews | add a review
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There's no doubt that this is a difficult collection to take---its engagement with hatred, violence, and ill-used religion and love forces readers to acknowledge realities which are both ugly and provoking. It's a provocative work, however, and one which works gracefully to comment on a society that often seems much cleaner and progressive than many individuals could attest to.
Certainly, I wouldn't recommend this for young readers. But, for readers of prose poetry and readers capable of seeing the darkest side of realities in literature, crudely and unflinchingly represented, Fort's representations and explorations are worth reading. It's a book to think on, and one which deserves acknowledgement as a lyrical exploration of legacies of hatred, and thus hopes of breaking those same legacies. ( )