What Someone Wanted by Shirley Graham
Poetry Tuesday, August 10th, 2010
Shirley Graham’s poetry is haunting and intense, not easily forgotten. Her descriptions are always apt–the ‘club footed pigeon” with a “maimed claw,” or a tongue that “fumbles for a rhythm.”
Using a diversity of styles that range from spare, unadorned poetry to prose that calls to mind the quirky energy of Swiss writer Robert Walser, to philosophically wry poetic musings reminiscent of Borges and Calvino, Graham looks with subtle insight at version after version of what happens when someone wants something: the rabid passion behind the devastation of war, the lover grappling with a kiss, the confusion of a dissolving relationship, the mother trying to be mother enough for her child, the ever-recurring longings that so define what it means to be a human being.
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