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p_tremuloides 's review for:
Ideal Cities
by Erika Meitner
Loved the first section of this book of poetry, "Rental Towns," in part because the poems flowed like Matthew Dickman's--taking these very real moments and turning them into captured moments full of poeticism, full of the beauty of the fleeting.
The second section took a more religious view and the poems seemed, to me, more forced, less grounded (overall) in the real. That being said, I only skipped one poem in this entire book and that poem was in the second section where I just couldn't root myself in the poem or the form and certainly not for 3-4 pages.
Meitner reminds us that some stories are not ours to tell and in so many of these poems promotes gentleness without being "wooey"
From the title poem:
...In the ideal city
my neighbor is a taxi driver.
My neighbor is at sea.
My neighbor thinks
his house is haunted
while his wife's away
on business. My neighbor
gives a robber a glass
of Chateau Malescot St-Exupery
and a hug. In the ideal city my neighbors
are a multi-generational
family & one guy
who puts chairs
in the street
to save a spot
for our moving truck.
The second section took a more religious view and the poems seemed, to me, more forced, less grounded (overall) in the real. That being said, I only skipped one poem in this entire book and that poem was in the second section where I just couldn't root myself in the poem or the form and certainly not for 3-4 pages.
Meitner reminds us that some stories are not ours to tell and in so many of these poems promotes gentleness without being "wooey"
From the title poem:
...In the ideal city
my neighbor is a taxi driver.
My neighbor is at sea.
My neighbor thinks
his house is haunted
while his wife's away
on business. My neighbor
gives a robber a glass
of Chateau Malescot St-Exupery
and a hug. In the ideal city my neighbors
are a multi-generational
family & one guy
who puts chairs
in the street
to save a spot
for our moving truck.