| Dog Star Delicatessen: New And Selected Poems, 1979-2006 (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry) | Hardcoverby Mekeel McBride (Author)
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| | Binding: | Hardcover | | Publisher: | Carnegie-Mellon University Press | | Page Count: | 108 Pages | | Publication Date: | January 30, 2006 | | Sales Rank: | 2,391,491nd |
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 2 reviews)
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lyrical and generous by S. Chambliss Neil (Maine)  5 Stars
January 06, 2007
Mekeel McBride is a wonderful poet. Her works are lyrical and generous and immediate. She speaks to the complexity and mystery of life but never ever ponderously. This work, as the title says, is a selection from her previous collections as well as new material, and she just gets better and better. Who else can write a poem about a man who wants to be a redbird -- and have that poem be the best love poem I've seen in a long time.
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Truly Beautiful, Truly Human by John Michael Albert (Dover NH) 5 Stars
June 04, 2006
Praising Mekeel McBride on the New Hampshire Seacoast, especially among poets, is entirely unnecessary. Rarely has a human being been more appropriately attached to a craft. She is famous here as a strong poet and -- such an unbelievably extraordinary thing -- a teacher of strong poets. Here is lean poetry, focussed poetry, powerful narratives well told in shimmering language. And here is the unexpecteed twist, the final flourish that makes short lyrics unfogettable and eludes most of their authors. If McBride ever had the gift of gab that might be deduced from her name, it is clearly bleached out of her by the winter sun and the summer sea. And what is left is truly beautiful, truly human. Most amazing to me: the presence of the ghost of her father in "I Don't Know How," the evocation of her aunt Romaine on driving past "The Foxy Romaine Produce Box," the truly magical story of the mailman who is forbidden to read Westerns between deliveries in "Dreaming Space Awake," and the 80-year-old who finally achieves her unsuccessful childhood attempts to turn herself blue by glutting herself on blueberries in "How Spring Appears This Time of Year in New England." But don't let my taste prejudice you. Here is a well practiced artisan. You are likely to be equally passionate about four very different poems here. But you'll have to read the book first.
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