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Dewey Decimal Number: 811.6
EAN num: 9781932535006
ISBN number: 1932535004
Label: Orchises Press
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Page Count: 60
Printing Date: 2004-01
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I'm not the biggest fan of the genre of poetry.
So much of it has been either Hallmarked into submission or simply wallows in a dread that is of no interest to me. Life is too short to waste on bad writing.
John Poch is a phenomenal talent. His poems are easy to read through as a light snack; they can also be savored and gnawed on and turned into a full meal. The language is at once accessible and complex.
The sonnets make iambic pentameter seem easy, natural, and necessary. They provide a place where (see OCTOBER JOGGER) Kierkegaard and a Studebaker can rightfully exist in the same stanza. A poem entitled TREE SONG ON THE WATER happily coexists with the 25 delicious lines of RE-WIRING THE HOUSE.
Students and professors of poetry will have days/months/years(?) of productive analysis and debate ahead of them. Common folk like me have 63 pages of heartache, laughter, tears--a unique and beautiful look inside one person's soul and world.
Buy it. No regrets. I promise.
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In an age of rampant "victimization" poetry, John Poch's book POEMS stands out as a refreshing return to the aural and intellectual obligations of the true poem -- if Poch is a "victim" of anything, it is his own heart, nothing more or less. In an age of reactionary "neo-formalism" and ramped-up sentimentality, Poch's informed formality re-instructs the reader in the great tonal tradition of Keats, Browning, Yeats -- and brings to mind the tough-minded wit of such contemporaries as Wilbur, Justice, Schnactenberg. Take this lovely image from "The Oar": ". . . I'd lie / in my hammock with a woman, my arm slung down / over the side like an oar tired of rowing." --or, from "Tree Song On the Water": "To be lost, gone / under her oyster dress was all / anybody wanted, just laid / in the lace and veil and train, to shine / in death rather than darken." John Poch's poems repay long reading. His modest book sings and prays -- but take it home and prepare to be ravished.
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A friend gave me a copy of this book for a christmas present. I just got around to reading it and found it to be a great collection of poems. One of the better modern works I've read in quite a while.
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In a day where artistic expression leaps out at us as a Chinese star pierced breast at the Super Bowl, I am comforted when I come across good art. "Poems" is such art. A cursory read of this book reveals that Poch, unlike many poets of our day, is not merely a master of language...but refreshingly well-read and profoundly influenced by those that have gone before. Shakespeare, Dante, Auden, Neruda, at times a spiritual consciousness that reminds me of Donne. Buy the book; you will appreciate the beautiful, reverent, and thought-provoking manner in which Poch treats life, love, women, nature, and the human experience. Love. And live.
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After rereading some of these poems after a long time and reading others for the very first time, I was reminded what a superb poet John Poch is. 'Tying the Knot' has to be one of my favorites and just demonstrates the command that Mr. Poch has over the English language. A wonderful book by a passionate poet...highly recommended read.
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