--Vijay Seshadri, Author of The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press)
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Vijay Seshadri previews "Equal to the Earth"
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Jee Leong Koh is a vigorous, physical poet very much captured by the expressive power of rhythm, rhetoric, and the lexicon. He is also, paradoxically, a poet in pursuit of the most elusive and delicate of human emotions. The contradiction is wonderful and compelling, and so are his poems.
"Jee Leong Koh is a vigorous, physical poet very much captured by the expressive power of rhythm, rhetoric, and the lexicon. He is also, paradoxically, a poet in pursuit of the most elusive and delicate of human emotions. The contradiction is wonderful and compelling, and so are his poems."
"I was several times reminded of Joni Mitchell's conversational, outsider-styled song lyrics while reading this book." Read more.
A new book of poems by Jee Leong Koh
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--Vijay Seshadri, author of The Long Meadow (Graywolf Press)
"His poems are like the sexy nerd you meet at a bar, the one you really want to get to know better-- with his glasses and tie on and nothing else." Read more.
"His poems are like the sexy nerd you meet at a bar, the one you really want to get to know better-- with his glasses and tie on and nothing else." Read more.
--Christopher Hennessy, Outside the Lines: Talking with Contemporary Gay Poets (University of Michigan Press)
"Equal to the Earth is characterised by enquiry, technical curiosity and emotional questioning." Read more.
--Eshuneutics
"I was several times reminded of Joni Mitchell's conversational, outsider-styled song lyrics while reading this book." Read more.
--Robert Urban, Urban Productions, NYC
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Retakes 1
After my book party I invited people to give me their takes on my poems, in the form of poems, art, photography, videos or readings in their own voice. AH responded to the poetry and the photography with an elegant sonnet.
Portrait
alcun’altra beltà nel cor traluce.
--Michelangelo (76).
Unable to discern the solar eye
(In dark before the alba’s light) I hill
The brightness settings through degrees until
At thirty-seven there is symmetry;
And mid-tones, shadows, highlights re-concur,
To form a formal elegance. Your look,
Now balanced, burning bright, unfolds that book
Of love that stirs inside the connoisseur
Of eyes “Some other Beauty in the heart
Not issuing from light’s first cause.” Observed
At this intensity, you are reserved,
Ethereal, as others hear: pure art.
I note, then turn again to what was good:
The cockcrow dark of man in Morningwood.
AH is a writer and teacher who lives in the United Kingdom. Since Spring 2006, he has written a poetry blog using the name Eshuneutics. (In a past incarnation, his field of academic research was Ezra Pound and The Cantos). His main interests are modern poetry, the Hermetical tradition from the Renaissance onwards, and gay poetries.
Portrait
alcun’altra beltà nel cor traluce.
--Michelangelo (76).
Unable to discern the solar eye
(In dark before the alba’s light) I hill
The brightness settings through degrees until
At thirty-seven there is symmetry;
And mid-tones, shadows, highlights re-concur,
To form a formal elegance. Your look,
Now balanced, burning bright, unfolds that book
Of love that stirs inside the connoisseur
Of eyes “Some other Beauty in the heart
Not issuing from light’s first cause.” Observed
At this intensity, you are reserved,
Ethereal, as others hear: pure art.
I note, then turn again to what was good:
The cockcrow dark of man in Morningwood.
AH is a writer and teacher who lives in the United Kingdom. Since Spring 2006, he has written a poetry blog using the name Eshuneutics. (In a past incarnation, his field of academic research was Ezra Pound and The Cantos). His main interests are modern poetry, the Hermetical tradition from the Renaissance onwards, and gay poetries.
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