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May 15, 2007 07:30 PM
MARY SZYBIST
Mary Szybist, in her first book, Granted ($13.95 Alice James), makes
sparkling poetry from passion and thought. Her aesthetic might be called new
lyricism -- language making original and surprising turns. "Granted, there
are some sadnesses / in which I do not long for God." That longing,
religious and sexual, fuels many of her poems, with the religious and sexual
mingling at times. In the voice of the Biblical Mary she writes, "I was so
young, so entirely agreeable to the task. / I bent so easily." Her exciting
leaps of imagination, while aptly capturing the feelings of emotional and
religious turmoil, can also take on comic tones -- "You're the head injury
I've always longed for, / what I call thinking." Ms. Syzbist is an original
writer plumbing depths of thought, feeling, and religion.
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