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Loading... Fidelity: Poemsby Grace Paley
   Books Read in 2015 (1,089) No current Talk conversations about this book.  noirverse | Sep 4, 2020 |  Published when the author was eighty-four, this collection reflects, in part, the author's reflections on that period in her life. The author's style involves all lower case with the exception of the word "I." Spaces, rather than punctuation, mark pauses. The author's style does not resonate well with me, although I appreciated some of the poems. The author's atheism manifested itself in one poem in the collection. I prefer Mary Oliver's poetry. (  ) thornton37814 | Feb 15, 2020 | There were....seven lines in this collection that I loved and want to play with. You'd think that would garner a no-star rating, but that is a pretty damn good signal-to-noise ratio, and the good lines are *really* good. So: three stars, I'm keeping my copy, and planning to dig a Paley paperback out of storage the next time I get a chance. ( ) cricketbats | Mar 30, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
Just before her death in 2007 at the age of eighty-four, Grace Paley completed this wise and poignant book of poems. Full of memories of friends and family and incisive observations of life in both her beloved hometown, New York City, and rural Vermont, the poems are sober and playful, experimenting with form while remaining eminently readable. They explore the beginnings and ends of relationships, the ties that bind siblings, the workings of dreams, the surreal strangeness of the aging body--all imbued with her unique perspective and voice. Mournful and nostalgic, but also ruefully funny and full of love, Fidelity is Grace Paley's passionate and haunting elegy for the life she was leaving behind. -- Publisher's description. No library descriptions found. |
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Favorites were: Anti-Love Poem, Birth of a Child, Having Dinner, To the Vermont Arts Council on its Fortieth Birthday, Many, Fidelity, The Irish Poet, One Day, and Sisters. (