Author : Mark Young
Publisher : Harrykstammer
ISBN 13 : 9781736816042
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Book Synopsis Songs to Come for the Salamander by : Mark Young
Download or read book Songs to Come for the Salamander written by Mark Young and published by Harrykstammer. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some readers might assume that particular, highly pessimistic generalizations in Young's poems are actually Mark Young presenting his sense of doom. The little ditty "democracy" registers the claim that "no-one// knows the/ words to" the "song" (the concept of democracy) even though "every-/ one sings" it, and "since violence is learned" tells us that "tolerance is no/ longer available, is replaced by trauma." Although nothing in the poems-not even such affirmations of aesthetic transport as "Constant Craving," which speaks of music "that acts as/ axis to steady everything around"-makes one identify the poet as a bright-eyed optimist, various moments in the work display too much respect for the complexity of cause and effect, limitations of human perception, the transience of trends, and sudden appearances of the unexpected to place sustained credence in large generalizations and foregone conclusions. from the Introduction by Thomas Fink