Soul Make a Path Through Shouting
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (578 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556590652 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-27 |
| Language | : | English |
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The result is an hypnotic and rhapsodic interweaving of dramatic narratives forming a single whole. "Cassells's writing strikes a balance between exquisite language and an empathy for anyone who is forced to suffer."--Publishers Weekly. Enriched by his own world travels, Cassells draws with equal ease from Greek mythology, children's rhymes, and African-American oral traditions
"A strong poetic voice" according to A Customer. I knew the poet during my studies at Stanford University and was thus interested in reading his verse. I first read some anthologized poems, then stumbled upon this collection. Cassells is a highly talented poet with a magical command of language. His best poems are the ones on general themes (Down from the Houses of Magic, A Schadrach Chorus) in which he fuses keen observation with an excellent ear and thereby creates an exquisite music. He is one of very few living authors that can send me to my dictionary to look up a word, witnessing to his vast storehouse of language. I found the sequence of poems on AIDS vic
The book's themes call for a tough language that can adequately haul the burden of oppression; the author attempts to combine his love of ornate phrasing with scenes of violence, shooting for a new effect, a sort of rhapsody of pain. If the goal is to prod us to remember history's atrocities, our constant shudder through the middle sequence of short poems (such as "These Are Not Brushstrokes," "Search" and "The Request") validate the writer's success. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Publishers Weekly Cassells's writing strikes a balance between exquisite language and an empathy for anyone who is forced to suffer. And at first, the two might seem incompatible: the first draws on the resources of beauty, while the s