Fugue for Other Hands eBook Joseph Fasano
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Winner of the 2011 Cider Press Review Book Award
Fugue for Other Hands eBook Joseph Fasano
Admirers of the inverted iamb and the unhinged image will find in Fasano's seventy inaugural pages a stunning beauty, at times difficult and unsettling and then, as if in antiphonal response, suddenly illuminating and kind. Works like "After Watching a Cow Throw Herself for Hours at Two Black Dogs That Had Come Up the Road to Nip at Her Calf" are pellucid with imagery, almost classically didactic in their slant-truthed assertion "that anguish is a possession." But then "Tutankhamen," a poem with all the trappings of narrative--intertwined stories of Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings and a suicide in the Hudson Valley--is opaque and elusive. Every poem in the book has that quality of the best of Ashbery or Shelley, a sense of beauty and grace and meaning that entirely confounds the exegetes, and leaves a more thoughtful reader almost frustrated by her inability to describe why and where she has been moved. Most uniquely, though, the individual works form a whole that is complete and interconnected, and in turn one of the more simply readable collections of poetry in years.Too many first volumes, especially prize books like this one, are badly encumbered by their authors' diaphanous attempts to be authors; they are porous and transparent, leaping from one voice to another thoughtlessly, and clumsily suturing real experience and image together with fashionable gimmick. They stink of the seminar, even during their high points, and of desperation for an audience. Fasano seems to have had no choice but to write this book. His lines at their worst are sincere and moving; at their best they are as inevitable as the melodies in Schubert. You really feel you know the poet personally by the last page; in addition to wonder at his craft, I don't think it's unwarranted to feel a bit of sympathy for his difficult vision.
Rilke wrote to Kappus, consolingly, to remind him of "the world you carry inside you," but for the young Fasano this world--great and complete as it is--seems as often to be a burden as it does an inspiration. It is a world in which nature is capricious, truculent and fragile, in which childhood is a dangerous possession the author can neither hold nor release, and in which the music of the spheres alternates between dissonance and dirge. But it is also a world in which redemption lurks magnificently and subcutaneously, in the grit and marrow of everyday experience. Importantly, we genuinely do not know whether we are worthy of it, or whether that matters. Get this book and read it, then read it again.
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Fugue for Other Hands eBook Joseph Fasano Reviews
I was upset at much of the poetry scene last year and thought that most of the new books lacked substance or style. Then I read this book and was floored. It has just the right amount of surrealism, imagery, depth, emotion...it's just straight up "good." Read this book. You won't be disappointed.
Joseph Fasano's first book of Poetry is a remarkably sophisticated arrangement of words and ideas. The sonority of these verses is beautiful as are the terrific range of visual metaphors that Fasano engages in his lines.
The poetry is founded upon a sure awareness of the tradition western poetics and the author moves among a great scale of forms with ease and energy.
This is Fasano's first collection and he will doubtless be rising through the levels and tiers of American poetry in the coming years.
In decades to come 'Fugue For Other Hands' will be seen as a young masterpiece.
Welcome to the American Grain!
Joseph Fasano's poems take one into a mysterious world inhabited by birds, animals, music, breaks one's heart
with the pity and mercy found in that world. His voice a vibrato, fresh with imagest seems to linger on the
ambient air, crowd back back into the mind unexpectedly. Judy Longley
I cringe to start any phrase as cliche as "Joseph Fasano's imagery", but with Fugue for Other Hands, Fasano reminds us how integral we are to our scenery, how the country road, that old route we used to take, the river out back, and the pasture beyond that is, in fact, the wilderness stumbling out of ourselves.
What an amazing first book! A MUST read if you love poetry! The imagery, metaphors, the beautiful language, gorgeous line-breaks -- and haunting, haunting emotional moments...
Admirers of the inverted iamb and the unhinged image will find in Fasano's seventy inaugural pages a stunning beauty, at times difficult and unsettling and then, as if in antiphonal response, suddenly illuminating and kind. Works like "After Watching a Cow Throw Herself for Hours at Two Black Dogs That Had Come Up the Road to Nip at Her Calf" are pellucid with imagery, almost classically didactic in their slant-truthed assertion "that anguish is a possession." But then "Tutankhamen," a poem with all the trappings of narrative--intertwined stories of Howard Carter in the Valley of the Kings and a suicide in the Hudson Valley--is opaque and elusive. Every poem in the book has that quality of the best of Ashbery or Shelley, a sense of beauty and grace and meaning that entirely confounds the exegetes, and leaves a more thoughtful reader almost frustrated by her inability to describe why and where she has been moved. Most uniquely, though, the individual works form a whole that is complete and interconnected, and in turn one of the more simply readable collections of poetry in years.
Too many first volumes, especially prize books like this one, are badly encumbered by their authors' diaphanous attempts to be authors; they are porous and transparent, leaping from one voice to another thoughtlessly, and clumsily suturing real experience and image together with fashionable gimmick. They stink of the seminar, even during their high points, and of desperation for an audience. Fasano seems to have had no choice but to write this book. His lines at their worst are sincere and moving; at their best they are as inevitable as the melodies in Schubert. You really feel you know the poet personally by the last page; in addition to wonder at his craft, I don't think it's unwarranted to feel a bit of sympathy for his difficult vision.
Rilke wrote to Kappus, consolingly, to remind him of "the world you carry inside you," but for the young Fasano this world--great and complete as it is--seems as often to be a burden as it does an inspiration. It is a world in which nature is capricious, truculent and fragile, in which childhood is a dangerous possession the author can neither hold nor release, and in which the music of the spheres alternates between dissonance and dirge. But it is also a world in which redemption lurks magnificently and subcutaneously, in the grit and marrow of everyday experience. Importantly, we genuinely do not know whether we are worthy of it, or whether that matters. Get this book and read it, then read it again.
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