But my favorite poems are the eight that are quite sparse, poems like ‘Topaz,’ ‘Sheer,’ and ‘Pearl.’ These minimalistic poems linger, like those fragments of memory that all of us try so desperately to hold on to as time passes and events are drawn further back into the past. These are the poems that Dempster uses to pull the narrative of his own family together. And these are the poems that hold the collection together in a place that is solid and grounded, grounded in family and history, suffering and love. iexaminer.org/2014/05/circling-back-the-lineage-in-brian-komei-dempsters-topaz-2/
Posted on: Tue, 27 May 2014 17:24:29 +0000