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Roland Flint beckons us in a voice inclusive and reassuring to come see the everyday world. In Easy, Flint speaks of gratitude for whatever is good, true, and simple, though one suspects such gratitude is not simply or easily acquired. There is a gentleness, if not always in the subjects of these poems, then in their telling and in their reception.
"What is laughter to cure cancer? / or to surprise a darkness like grief/ so that you guiltily clap your mouth?" ("Haha"). "If the colors of spring are no / brighter, as to Williams's widow, / they are no less bright, or fine / to me, despite my sorrowing, / seeing them, you are gone" ("Tom"). Flint's fluid penetration of diverse people and matters -- manual laborers, the next-door neighbor teaching his son to ride a bike, Allen Tate, cooking, gardening, marriage, popular culture, the link/rivalry between laughter and sex, poetry itself -- does not descend to the mysterious, difficult, or esoteric; people and life, pure and simple, yield bald-faced truths and exquisite riches of insight enough.
Easy is a marvelous work: lyrical gems of honest and wry delight in what we mistake as commonplace.
- Sales Rank: #3538058 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Louisiana State Univ Pr
- Published on: 1999-03-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.02" h x .25" w x 6.38" l, .25 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 56 pages
- Used Book in Good Condition
From Kirkus Reviews
paper 0-8071-2262-9 The seventh book by the retired Georgetown professor advertises itself truthfully: its easy-going, easily understood, and full of easy rhythms and rhymes. As the title poem about his happy marriage avers, how / easy it is, the times like this, when its simple. Flints plain and folksy verse stays true to its humble intentions: in short-line forms, ballads, odes, and elegies, he records moments of joy. Take the Moment: Thursday Aubade remembers a lyrical time in Perugia, on his wedding anniversary, with a worker singing outside; in Windfall from Edna Millay, hes amazed by an actual windfall of apples in a field; Strawberries like Raspberries describes the wonderful fruit of economically depressed Bulgaria; and Henry & June the Movie defends the sexiness of its female leads against criticism. Sex is often a laughing matter for Flint: Never Again Would Birdsong is a ditty about the link between laughter and orgasm, which Flint expounds upon at length in HaHa, a poem that plays on the Old English roots of the word laugh. Raised in the austere Midwest, Flint recalls his mothers difficult life in a few poems; and maintains a simple faith (And it was good) and a belief in the virtues of labor (Do You Have an Extra Saw). His ode to friendship (Pamela) is further supported by his own elegies for Tom, with whom he shared the ordinary passages of time. Flints humility doesnt prevent flights of fanciful glory: he prays for literary fame, since However small. The work is all. Verse so genial its easy to overlook its flaws. -- Copyright �1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
About the Author
The author of six previous books of poetry, Roland Flint was appointed Poet Laureate of Maryland in 1995. He has been awarded many resident fellowships at retreats for artists, most recently at Yaddo. He taught literature and writing at Georgetown University for thirty years.
Most helpful customer reviews
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
An exuberant, finely wrought lexicon of laughter & grief
By A Customer
EASY is acclaimed poet Roland Flint's 7th book, and in a career marked by the rare marriage of multiplicity of style with knuckle-busting consistency of vision, this may be his most compelling collection to date. A native of North Dakota, Flint's plainspoken, masterful eloquence informs line after line, carefully measuring the liveliest, smartest, most sensual poetry of our day. He is more than partial to a laugh (see "Monkey House," "Land of Cotton," "Ah, Venus," "HaHa") -- he's stubbornly bent on laughter. His work possesses the cleverness of Roethke, the lyric, ingrained sensitivity to rhythm and occasional rhyme of Wright, the psychodynamic jazz of Matthews, the hard irony of Berryman. And that's merely the beginning. What stands out in poem after poem is the compassionately rendered, unsparing clarity of emotion -- whether of hilarity or piercing loss or both at once -- that without the poem had gone unnoticed, unrescued, unpraised, unredeemed. Take his characteristically precise and moving "Strawberries Like Raspberries," in which the poet recalls a trip to Bulgaria, where he tasted "the genius/ or luck of Bulgarian horticulture," especially in the country's strawberries -- "small, a delicately sweet dark red." He's learned just enough Bulgarian, from a communist text, to misconstrue -- for the varietal name of the fruit itself -- a local friend's comparing these strawberries with raspberries. Later, back in the states, the poet reads of the transition (or translation) from communism to capitalism, of the saddening kinks in the new food distribution chain, regretting all that wasted genius, and concludes: "... for a while, at least,/ the harvest will be only of fruit -- / bitterer than sour cherries --/ of what had been more deeply sown." EASY is replete with such poetry of harvest: in "Little Men Who Come Blindly," fathers reap what they've sown in their children; in "Seasonal, 1991," early spring in Bagdhad, following the Gulf War, brings from military triumph the mortal grief in "a season of heat and winds/ of cholera and typhus;" in "Pamela," adolescent love bears the fruit of enduring loyalty. These are poems ripe with their moments, coming off the page easily, of their own weight. Flint's earthy versatility calls to mind a maple on the plains in October, whose lower limbs still are green, whose middle branches are yellow, and whose upper leaves are orange-red: a single figure for loss, austerity, and an abundance of bright-hard laughter. EASY is a collection you will respect, and thoroughly enjoy in each of its many facets. Roland Flint will make you smarter at heart.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
Joy Rediscovered
By A Customer
I have never been able to say this about any other book: I enjoyed EASY so much that I read it through twice in one sitting. Roland Flint is a writer of great heart who has suffused each of the thirty-seven poems in his new collection with quiet beauty. It is hard not to feel grateful after reading these poems, and most people will most likely also be more aware of the pleasures they take in daily life, the ones they might not readily recognize. In one of the poems in the book's third section, "Strawberries Like Raspberries," Flint describes the delight of eating a perfect pear in such clear detail that I immediately thought of a pear I had recently eaten and wished for another. Flint's language is always lucid, his lines and stanzas crisp like fall leaves, and there is sometimes an autumnal melancholy to his poems, e.g. "After the Spanish Mass with Nena," "Pamela," "Grief November," "Prayer." Others, however, are more celebratory: "Never Again Would Birdsong" and "HaHa" examine the link between laughter and sex, revealing that the two are often closely related. Still others amuse with anecdotes or mild wordplay: "Henry & June the Movie" and "Land of Cotton." This is a collection in which readers will rediscover joy. Praised be Roland Flint! Praised be!
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
A Thoughtful Pleasure
By Bookish2
I have never been able to say this about any other book: I enjoyed EASY so much that I read it through twice in one sitting. Roland Flint is a writer of great heart who has infused each of the thirty-seven poems in his new collection with quiet beauty. It is hard not to feel grateful after reading these poems, and most people will also be more aware of the pleasures they take in daily life, the ones they might not readily recognize. In one of the poems in the book's third section, "Strawberries Like Raspberries," Flint describes the delight of eating a perfect pear in such clear detail that I immediately thought of a pear I had recently eaten and wished for another. Flint's language is always lucid, his lines and stanzas crisp like fall leaves, and there is sometimes an autumnal melancholy to his poems, e.g. "After the Spanish Mass with Nena," "Pamela," "Grief November," Again Would Birdsong" and "HaHa" examine the link between laughter and sex, postulating that the two are often closely related. And Movie" and "Land of Cotton." This is a collection in which readers will rediscover joy. Praised be Roland Flint! Praised be
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