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Open Books: Event Archive
January 23, 2007 07:30 PM
ANDREW FELD & PIMONE TRIPLETT
Andrew Feld and Pimone Triplett have recently joined the faculty of the
University of Washington Writing Program. Mr. Feld's first book, Citizen
($12.95 Harper Collins) was a winner of the 2003 National Poetry Series.
"Citizen" is the right title for his collection; the subjects of his
arresting poems have nearly the breadth of a nation. From sixteen-year-old
boxers "working out, with painful, close attention, a number / of terrible
ideas," to Richard Nixon and Bebe Rebozo contributing, ahem, to the Potomac
from the stern of yacht, his poems are unified by apt, surprising language.
He describes the CNN voice-over translation of an Afghani poppy farmer as
being in a "slow, affectless tone, like someone translating // peacock into
hamburger."
Pimone Triplett's second poetry book is The Price of Light ($14.95 Four
Way). Her poems feature a wide variety of styles and voices. She tells some
stories directly and compellingly. Describing a train ride in Thailand, she
writes, "Longer I stared the more I could feel / space shrinking all around,
the crowd of us skimming / the river of tracks we rode on and no still point
/ in any of us." At other times she writes with an ecstatic lyricism, as
when she regards the passage of grief -- "dear daystart, / cradle us in
between, / the little that winters over." Her work is richly visual and
emotional, drawing in the reader.
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