What: Susan Wheeler's exploded, layered elegy is riddled with cliches in the best possible way. The poems spiral the reader down past a variety of voices, from chiding/petulant to jaded/smirking, all within 100 pages that are filled with plenty of white space.
Meme is also a finalist for the 2012 National Book Award. If you want to jump into some contemporary poetry, this is a pretty good place to start.
Comparable to: The tone is similar to a very s t r e t c h e d o u t snippet of Kira Henehan's novel Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles, which I loved the heck out of.
Opening lines:
"She was a real stickler.
Well, I couldn't get it for the life of me. All I remember is, Mademoiselle Skeen, vous êtes une tête du bois!"
Representative quote:
"It could have been the sea
It could have been the stars
It could have been
that girls not men
were the ones from Mars."
You might not like it if: Well, poetry. It's poetry all over the place.
How to get it: Buy it or borrow it.
Connections to previous Wreckage: Orion You Came and You Took All My Marbles was Rec. #195.
If you want more poetry, try Monologue of a Dog (Rec. #19), The Best of It (Rec. #50), or Ripple Effect (Rec. #118).
[Originally posted 12/3/12.]
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