Notes on Paper edition by Damon Falke Laura Mae Jackson Literature Fiction eBooks
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In "Notes on Paper", Damon Falke walks us through the landscape of one man’s mind, which contains both his past and an awareness of our common future. From within private memories the narrator reaches out to us with “we” and “you”, and each spare line invokes the hope that we, like him, are worthy of return to our most longed for places. And if to return is not our fate, and really it never can be, the narrator bids us survey our own memories, taking time in the present for the winds, and the words, that move the world. A work of profound beauty with illustrations by artist Laura Mae Jackson.
Notes on Paper edition by Damon Falke Laura Mae Jackson Literature Fiction eBooks
Damon Falke's meditative, lucid poems blend homespun familiarity with Beckett's sense of loss, longing, and fragmentation to establish a distinctively plains and desert imagism. His latest work, Notes on Paper: A Poem (Schechem Press, 2012), combines Falke's poetry with illustrations by Laura Mae Jackson to consider longing, memory, and desire in relationship to place. "When October Comes," the opening poem, establishes the themes of memory and loss and a melancholic tone: "Once we shared a river camp with an old man / Who came west in a wagon. / I keep them in a loneliness / And in times we could never save," preparing the reader for the main poem, "Notes on Paper."You can read the full text of this review essay here: http://jamesrovira.com/2013/06/22/1103/
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Notes on Paper edition by Damon Falke Laura Mae Jackson Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Falke's imagery is poignant and heart rending. His memories feel familiar, though they're not our own. The verses are precise enough to give us clean glimpses into Falke's own experience. Yet, he leaves enough space between the lines to allow the reader to insert his or her own encounters, heartaches, fears and longings. Such careful reflection leads to deliberate living.
This road of quiet remembering can only be walked alone. But, Falke leads by example and readers have the privilege of bearing meaningful witness from a distance.
I have read it twice through, then once backwards (which I recommend), which really isn't enough times to speak intelligently about it, but it is finals week and I want to get this out to you. Damon's work--what can I tell YOU about it; you're the expert Falke-ian here, but as you'll notice, his prowess is at an apex here. I love language and shouldn't be reduced to such words as "doosie" or "splendid," and yet here they are crowding to front of my vocabulary... a "splendid doosie"! This poem recalls, insists that the reader recall, all that is great about great poetry, but it is a poetry seemingly uninfluenced and new. Sparse, but not anemic (like the prarie, I'd guess); calculated but unformulaic. Phrases like, "Stay in one past too long/and you might not move/ in another direction" (presupposing that movement is necessary--like on the prarie, too), and "picking about the weeds/the sage and rabbit brush/the odd scraps of nudity" linger on the dry tongue of my mind like water that tastes too good to swallow just yet, even though I want to ingest it now and take sustenance from it; I want first to relish it. Like well-crafted brandywine (you know) which tastes like four or five things are going on in your mouth--but also like cold springwater on one of those classic New Mexico summer desert days where you can't get enough water no matter what. What I am trying to say is that the language comes at you here in un-trite, un-cheezey, un-haiku sparsity that is much like water when you're thirsty, and I am. ("you know/there is never enough water/for old fires") And Damon's Christianity is evident there, not in a billboardy, look-I'm-a-Christian-and-you'd-better-know-I-love-Jesus way, but in his understanding (mega-understanding) of language's power to refresh and edify--like the psalmist he mentions.
Damon Falke's meditative, lucid poems blend homespun familiarity with Beckett's sense of loss, longing, and fragmentation to establish a distinctively plains and desert imagism. His latest work, Notes on Paper A Poem (Schechem Press, 2012), combines Falke's poetry with illustrations by Laura Mae Jackson to consider longing, memory, and desire in relationship to place. "When October Comes," the opening poem, establishes the themes of memory and loss and a melancholic tone "Once we shared a river camp with an old man / Who came west in a wagon. / I keep them in a loneliness / And in times we could never save," preparing the reader for the main poem, "Notes on Paper."
You can read the full text of this review essay here http//jamesrovira.com/2013/06/22/1103/
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