Steal the Bacon (Johns Hopkins: Poetry and Fiction) - Softcover
Like bright graffiti in a schoolyard, Charles Martin's poems "renew the ancient complaint/ of speech against stone". Serious and playful-- often at the same time-- they give form to the part of us that resists blank walls. "Steal the Bacon" shows Martin at his inventive best, drawing figures in language.
That language ranges from prehistoric scrimshaw to the word on the sign at the end of the world. At Crusoe's command, Friday narrates a long poem in eighteenth-century diction, giving "a true Account of our Life together/ in all Particulars"; another man teaches English to recent immigrants in a new land that they will discover "exists only in what we say about it". Poems eavesdrop on various nesting places in which domesticity translates the language of desire, or explore the silences of a landscape without history, perhaps without a future.
But throughout "Steal the Bacon", voices affirm the present, even if they can affirm nothing else. The word on the sign at the end of the world is "Yes".
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These witty, darkly ironic poems give shape to "the legends of the heart's lust for joy and violence"; at the same time, their traditional formal concerns belie Martin's passion for exploring the inherent moral issues raised. The book's centerpiece is a 25-page narrative in rhymed quatrains depicting Friday's accounts of his life with Crusoe: "for nothing he ever did was done with Ease/ of Natur. . . . Things had Value ownly from their Use, / & had no Feelings nor Intelligence / which we call Spirit. " In "To the Living Bait," Martin recognizes, with saving irony, the horror of this same conflict today; he knows, too, that whatever the country of our desire, "it exists in what we say about it." Consequently, his struggle with silence is essential. Recommended for contemporary collections. Robert Hudzik, P.L. of Cincinnati & Hamilton Cty.
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- PublisherThe Johns Hopkins University Press
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0801834945
- ISBN 13 9780801834943
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages88
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