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lauren_endnotes's review against another edition
4.0
What a collection! Meitner's work is on the radar now, and I will seek out more.
I was looking for a theme here and didn't really find one, it's this beautiful mash of trailer parks, Yiddish, Detroit, religious overtones, and verb conjugations.
Highlights:
To Whom It May Concern:
And After the Ark
Apologetics
Porto, Portare, Portavi, Portatus
Maple Ridge
Yiddishland
Wal*Mart Supercenter
I was looking for a theme here and didn't really find one, it's this beautiful mash of trailer parks, Yiddish, Detroit, religious overtones, and verb conjugations.
Highlights:
To Whom It May Concern:
And After the Ark
Apologetics
Porto, Portare, Portavi, Portatus
Maple Ridge
Yiddishland
Wal*Mart Supercenter
suddenflamingword's review against another edition
3.0
Copia's poems have an inner hollowness. Not empty like a balloon, ditzy and floating off, but like a crab shell after dinner. Their rigidity emphasizes the hollowness of consumerist living through ironic echoes as in the dilapidated Detroit that fills the last portion of the book: without the direction which strong internal commitments provide, American cities fell apart. Just as without strong internal commitments Meitner herself may have fallen apart due to the infertility she also embodies int he last portion. Hence copia: "reproduction" in Medieval Latin, "abundance" in Latin, from co "together" & ops "wealth." A vanquished Walmart is a great place to build atop - loss is like possibility. Much like Walter Benjamin's angel, hope remains - though, moving with our backs turned to it, we may not know the form of hope nor like the shape it takes.
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