Mystery of Meteors
by Eleanor Lerman
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After a brilliant debut withArmed Love (Wesleyan, 1973) andCome the Sweet By and By, which won the inaugural Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press in 1975, Eleanor Lerman has kept silent for twenty-five years. Her new book breaks this silence with work every bit as inventive, audacious, and passionate as her first award- winning volumes. Cosmology, physics, ancient Egypt, alien abduction, the Internet, memory, archaeology, love: these are some of the subjects that find show more unlikely and original conflation in Lerman's new collection of poems. Lerman's new poems are like terminals where trains from many distant provinces of both the inner and outer worlds-thought, history, imagination, science, etc.-find meeting with weird and affable grace. They are intelligent but accessible. They are buoyant with a self-regarding wryhumor. They bravely and unpretentiously grab hold of whatever is at hand as they approach and enter "the deep desires that split the sky." "Eleanor Lerman is back, a different poet, quieter, older, 'wiser,' more earthly yet still brilliant, a coruscating daughter of the poet of the Seventies. What luck for American literature."-Richard Stern Eleanor Lerman was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1952. She is the author of two previous books of poetry,Armed Love, andCome the Sweet By and By. She has been nominated for a National Book Award, received the inaugural Juniper Prize from the University of Massachusetts Press, and was the recipient of a poetry grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. She lives and works in New York City. Table of Contents The Mystery of Meteors, 3 In the New School, 5 The Book of What Is in the Duat, 7 Flora Street, 9 The Farm in Winter, 11 Wild Wind, Green Tea, 13 Office in a Small City, 14 The Alchemist's Prayer/ 16 The Lesson of the Queen, 18 Remote Viewing, 20 The Strange Attractor, 22 Hyannis, 24 A California Story, 26 The Outing, 28 Dominion, 29 To Montreal, 32 Night Flight, 34 Tornado Days, 36 Missing Time, 38 Hot Town, Sukiyaki, 40 Blue Skies, Indiana, 42 What the Dark-Eyed Angel Know show lessTags
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I often feel guilty or vaguely inadequate when poetry doesn't do it for me. The published, well-reviewed kind, that is. I bought this because I really enjoyed the follow-up volume -- Our Post-Soviet History Unfolds -- but this wasn't nearly as enchanting. The first two-thirds, that is. At 'Blue Skies, Indiana' forward, it turned into what I remembered. So I guess my lesson is to look forward for her next book, but to not bother with the two that came before this one.
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