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This poet's relationship to language is nearly physical in its intensity. Fearless and headlong, these poems sing in service to love, loss, pity, and hope. Whether a story of Keat's last days in Rome or a B-team basketball game in a small New england town, or a poem that joins the Red Sox, Oedipus, and the sphinx and the Devil Rays and Grendel's mom in the same breath, this poet's ambition is large and her authority clear. In "Litany for J," a poem in memory of a dead friend, the poet recounts the list of things they had planned to get done: "sing like angels on moonshine, like fire, like sin." And she does.---Ellen Dudley
John Keats might have been writing to Dawn Potter when he said, "There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music." With a chant from the bad boys on the back of the bus and a honk of the gymnasium buzzer, these poems tackle the commotion of life: flip-flopping love (constant only in its thorny complications); glorious yet ignoble parenthood; and pitiless death, robbing us of our finest poets and closest friends. Here, "In our Troubled Sea, Mire and Mud heave up apace" and "America is stocked with Raitle Snakes," yet the earth is so beautiful even the devil hesitates before unleashing his havoc. All that's left to do is revel in the uproar---and read How the Crimes Happened.
Whether they're graveside tourists in Rome or lovelorn girls on a bus, the characters in How the Crimes Happened, Dawn Potter's ravishing second collection of poetry, "betray a fatal longing" for the complications of love. In the words of one girl, "I don't care if he dumps me after a week.../All I want is to give him everything he asks for, I'd lay myself down/in the falling snow to feel the weight of his heart." By turns comic and melancholy, hungry and euphoric, these poems surrender again and again to the passions and panics of experience.
John Keats might have been writing to Dawn Potter when he said, "There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music." With a chant from the bad boys on the back of the bus and a honk of the gymnasium buzzer, these poems tackle the commotion of life: flip-flopping love (constant only in its thorny complications); glorious yet ignoble parenthood; and pitiless death, robbing us of our finest poets and closest friends. Here, "In our Troubled Sea, Mire and Mud heave up apace" and "America is stocked with Raitle Snakes," yet the earth is so beautiful even the devil hesitates before unleashing his havoc. All that's left to do is revel in the uproar---and read How the Crimes Happened.
Whether they're graveside tourists in Rome or lovelorn girls on a bus, the characters in How the Crimes Happened, Dawn Potter's ravishing second collection of poetry, "betray a fatal longing" for the complications of love. In the words of one girl, "I don't care if he dumps me after a week.../All I want is to give him everything he asks for, I'd lay myself down/in the falling snow to feel the weight of his heart." By turns comic and melancholy, hungry and euphoric, these poems surrender again and again to the passions and panics of experience.
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Dawn Potter is associate director of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. Her most recent book is a memoir, Tracing Paradise: Two Years in Harmony with John Milton (University of Massachusetts Press, 2009). She has also published a previous poetry collection, Boy Land & Other Poems (Deerbrook Editions, 2004). She lives in Harmony, Maine, with photographer Thomas Birtwistle and their two sons.
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