Bottom of the Barrel The Herring Poems edition by David R Slavitt Literature Fiction eBooks
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Herring is a herring is a herring... These thirty-six fragments demonstrate what the herring can contribute to our relationship with literature. A tribute to kreplach and great poetry.
As the poet and translator David R. Slavitt writes in his Foreword, "Marianne Moore’s formula for poetry—real toads in an imaginary garden—is not only a pleasing idea but a useful one, suggesting how writing is not a closed system but partakes of the real world... The trouble is that toads are already too poetic...The disjunction she was suggesting turns out to be too timid..."
In Bottom of the Barrel, Slavitt inserts "something homely, something aggressively unpoetic" into fragments of great works. The result is irreverent and refreshing, a literary amuse gueule with sour cream on the side.
Bottom of the Barrel The Herring Poems edition by David R Slavitt Literature Fiction eBooks
These pickled herrings are hors d'oeuvres for the brain. Reading them caused laughter, then spurred me to read the originals. I suspect some of the originals have been improved.A great gift book, too.
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Bottom of the Barrel The Herring Poems edition by David R Slavitt Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
David Slavitt is one of the most prodigious writers working today. In book after book after book after book after book, he engages, amuses, delights, shocks, astounds, annoys, rouses, arouses, and generally awakens readers from the torpor that the works of too many (unnamed here) writers have cast them into. This collection of startling appearances of pickled herrings in great or somewhat less than great poetic works goes far beyond the idea of "jeu d'esprit" into a realm where the mind boggles, reconsiders how poetic language works, while laughing all the way.
These pickled herrings are hors d'oeuvres for the brain. Reading them caused laughter, then spurred me to read the originals. I suspect some of the originals have been improved.
A great gift book, too.
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