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Open Books: Event Archive
April 26, 2005 07:30 PM
JOSHUA BECKMAN
Whether it's his lengthy, and often moving, contemplations of the
vagaries of living and love or his deft urban haiku, Mr. Beckman's work is
generous and intimate, a genuine invitation. His most recent collection,
Your Time Has Come, is a pleasure to read and hold. A small, oblong book
of brief yet vivid poems, it makes one ponder the notion of Basho wandering
Manhattan -- "Some man on a bicycle / playing his radio. / What world
doesn't he rule." His is a voice at once solitary and communal. As he writes
in a poem from his earlier collection, Something I Expected To Be
Different, "Bruised and seeking perfection / there are hundreds of us on
every corner."
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