Aaron McCollough
Författare till Welkin: Poems (Sawtooth Poetry Prize Series 2002)
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The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (New Series) (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 28 exemplar
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There are several themes running through the collections. Living inside to the outdoors are compared -- chestnut tangles outside and coffee cups on a glass table inside. Nature fights at the man-made world -- roots breaking through a wall. There is scale in the sloping shelves of the sea and the sloping shelves of the galaxy. The inside muffles our senses.
Outside the capsule of the self but not
so far you're alone, guitar
Listen
to the fugue, a word for flower.
The fugue: the music or the loss of awareness?
McCollugh weaves together words in a near magical form. It is thinking poetry. A casual glance will not do it justice. There is a feeling of growth beyond the present, a more natural state of things. The man-made world fails in all respects except one -- the guitar. It is the beacon that connects worlds and images.
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Aaron McCollough's books of poetry include Welkin, Double Venus, Little Ease, and No Grave Can Hold My Body Down. He was raised in Tennessee. He holds a Ph.D. in English Language and Literature from the University of Michigan as well as an MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. He studies the influence of "passion" on the religious poetics of late 16th and early 17th Century England.
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