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| Genre/Form: | Poetry poetry Poésie |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc |
| ISBN: | 9781933880853 1933880856 |
| OCLC Number: | 1164492318 |
| Description: | x, 86 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents: | 1Wing and a Prayer Hockey Poem UnwrittenMaking Nothing: So Much Depends Mock HeroicHigh Forest State MarginalMaking Nothing: Bright Wings LuckAt SeaFearful SymmetryHow to Deke2Stay3Inside the Wind MimesisTo My WifeCrackedThe Varieties of Moss on Deer IsleMotherMaking Nothing: Ars PoeticaMaking Nothing: Arse PoeticalWords with FriendsNothingHock, n. Men's LeagueEarly OctoberSelf-Portrait, with Dish RagThe Last Game Justice in Chicago, 1992Turn Strange4Fields, Roadsides, Throughout5Self HelpBottom LineLowGoing to ChurchMaking Nothing: Why I Write Poems Deked, AgainThe Latest in NanotechnologyHockey DadMaking Nothing: The Volume Up to Eleven My Brother DyingDiveNotesAcknowledgements |
| Responsibility: | Gibson Fay-LeBlanc. |
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"In long and short forms, free and metered and rhymed, Gibson Fay-LeBlanc's Deke Dangle Dive is a gorgeous, powerful, and playful self-reckoning. With an ear deeply attuned to the verbal music of Frost and Heaney, spiked with a dash of Hopkins, and taking its metaphors and much of its matter from the hockey rink, Fay-LeBlanc faces the facts of middle age, of the practice of poetry, of raising two boys ('It's so easy/ to make broken people') and working to keep a marriage sparked while circumstance hands out its humilities. It's also a reckoning with a brother's illness ('I want, I want // my brother's cells to stop their war/ on each other') and with the broken family of origin whose rules take a lifetime to untangle: 'I who so often/ shut my mouth/ too early/ mean to/ keep on talking,' says Fay-LeBlanc, intent on saying what hasn't been said. But there is as much hope and consolation in these poems as there is wariness and weariness. Life's not a game, but there are games to play, channels for all the rage and fear, moves against the uncertainty. Feel your heart lifted as this poet shows what sports and poetry have to teach one another: 'Is this such bad training for what is to come?'" * Craig Morgan Teicher * "I don't know what to praise more, the vivid and bracing language of the poems in Deke Dangle Dive, or sense of life that language delivers, a life fully lived and examined in all its rich complexity. Hockey is, as one poem says, a way of 'humbling yourself to the rules of the game' and that also goes for the making of art, and beyond that the process Keats would call soul making, acknowledging the longing, love and grief that make us human. For Gibson Fay-Leblanc that involves exploring what it means to be a husband, father, son, and to confront the serious illness of a beloved brother. If the poet knows that the form 'can never be close enough to the actual,' still when poems are as beautifully made, as emotionally compelling as these are, they seem to pulse with life and pass that life on to us, through words that do indeed 'land in the gut' and 'shiver the ribs.'" * Betsy Sholl * "Deke means to trick or feint, dangle means to hold out in temptation, and dive means to fall from a great height. Gibson Fay-Leblanc's poems do all three. Sometimes at once. These are poems of risk and reward, of loss and labor. They present themselves as stories of hockey and poetry and love-fatherly and familial-but they always have another trick ready. Fay-Leblanc's second book proves he is a magician within 'this brutal, beautiful game.'" * Jeffrey Thomson * Read more...
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- Diseases -- Poetry.
- Fatherhood -- Poetry.
- Brotherliness -- Poetry.
- Masculinity -- Poetry.
- American poetry -- 21st century.
- Maladies -- Poésie.
- Paternité -- Poésie.
- Fraternité -- Poésie.
- Masculinité -- Poésie.
- American poetry.
- Brotherliness.
- Diseases.
- Fatherhood.
- Masculinity.
