A review of the recent works by West Coast poets Kim Trainor, Robert Bringhurst, and Jen Currin.
In Trainor, the personal is never separate from minutiae. From, “I’m getting pretty good at pretending I’m OK” and “Take Venlafaxine. Take Zopiclone. / Some warm milk” to “Trump broods, Saddam Hussein throws a little gas, everyone goes crazy” and “UNPRECEDENTED MILITARIZATION,” the poet’s images chronicle turmoil near and far.
For eminent Quadra Island writer Robert Bringhurst, poems are ruggedly capable vehicles for intrepid exploration. In The Ridge, Bringhurst ranges widely, touching on language and music, geology and nature. He’s also drawn to meditate on — and wrangle with — history and the human animal.Advertisement 5The Ridge by Robert Bringhurst.
Bringhurst calls for authentic connection to the world, hopeful for the kind of knowledge it can nurture. Yet, the counterpoint—“You, / like the rest of us, are condemned / to be what we are, whatever that is: / the plastic and devious species / we’re born as” — implies a real limit to the poet’s optimism.House of Anansi Press
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