HEROIC MEASURES
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (501 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814207847 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 96 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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David Bergman's compassionate book gives shape to the occasions of life." -Mark Doty, author of My Alexandria: Poems "Some of the best AIDS literature of any kind, Bergman's poems introduce characters who come alive and tell stories, not all directly about AIDS, that bring the poet and his anxieties to life too poem after poem is fluent, intelligent, well-shaped, and memorable." -Booklist David Bergman's new collection, Heroic Measures, opens with a section of poems that speak directly of male relationships and desire. David Bergman is a professor English at Towson University. A second grouping depicts images of art, giving us glimpses of Goya, Eakins, Mozart, and Mapplethorpe. Here are poems of friendship and travel, the ravages of the epidemic, love and fear for aging parents, an elegy for the handsomest of hairdressers. The result of this structure is to show the course of a life as a progressio
Friends sickened and died, and he had, for a while at least, to be one of the worried well. As a gay man, Bergman was affected. If Bergman doesn't astonish with his intellect, poem after poem is fluent, intelligent, well shaped, and memorable. Out of that experience come the approachable poems about AIDS in this collection's first part. From Booklist Between Cracking the Code (1985), Bergman's fine first collection, and this, his second, fell the AIDS epidemic. Ray Olson. Some of the best AIDS literature of any kind, they introduce characters who come alive and tell stories, not all directly about AIDS, that bring the poet and his anxieties to life, too. As much could be said of th
M. H. said Great Modern Poetry. David Bergman's "Heroic Measures" contains beautiful poems about the nature of life and living, that are universal between straight and gay audiences alike. It is poetry without pretension, that accepts itself easily and flows when read aloud. It does not try to outdo itself with meaningless metaphor and aggravating allusion, and instead honestly tells stories. This collection has such a varied repertoire of topics, too, from the much-praised AIDS poetry, to the nature of travel and family, with some especially meaningful poetry about fathers. With their unexpected rhyme, range of subjects, and sheer honest