Elephant Rocks: Poems
by Kay Ryan
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Author: Kay RyanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1997-08-19
ISBN: 0802135250
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Grove Press
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Book Review: Witty, Edgy, Beautiful
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this book. Kay Ryan's poems are very short, but they pack so much ambiguous meaning in a few lines. They're quite unusual among contemporary poetry: epigrammatic, terse, very accessible, almost light verse, but with shadows flickering all around. I give this book to friends who say they "don't get modern poetry" and that modern poetry makes them feel stupid. If you like Stevie Smith or the short verses of Robert Frost, you'll love Elephant Rocks. Here's a short one, called "Silence":Silence is not snow./ It cannot grow/ deeper. A thousand years/ of it are thinner/ than paper. so/ we must have it/ all wrong/ when we feel trapped/ like mastodons.
Summary of Elephant Rocks: Poems
Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan?s third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan?s poems have generated growing excitement with their appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Sometimes gaudily ornamental, sometimes Shaker-plain, here is verse that is compact on the page and expansive in the mind.
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