Bøger af Andrea Cohen

About Andrea Cohen's poems, Christian Wiman has said: "One is caught off guard by their cumulative force. This is work of great and sustained attention, true intelligence, and soul." In The Sorrow Apartments, Cohen's eighth collection, those signature gifts are front and center, along with sly humor, relentless economy, and the hairpin curves of gut-punch wisdom. How quickly Cohen takes us so far: Bunker What would I > up after > had evaporated? > I were water. The Sorrow Apartments is home to spare and uncanny lyricism--as well as leaping narratives of mystery and loss and wonder. These poems race at once into the past and the possible. And yet, instead of holding things up to the light for a better view, Cohen lifts them to the dark and light, as in "Acapulco," where an unlikely companion points out, "as men tend to, / the stars comprising Orion's belt -- / as if it were the lustrous sparks and not / the leveling dark that connects us." For a poet who has been called unfashionable from the get-go, unfashionable never looked so good.

"Clever, capricious poems grounded in the very matter of life: loving, losing, and persisting ... Andrea Cohen's Everything approaches the idea of the macro through an elastic inquiry of the micro ... The collection examines logic through analogy; for example, if everything is formed of anything, then isn't absence a product of abundance? In poems that follow their own line of questioning wherever it may lead--to destinations that are often unexpected and always rich with discovery--Cohen explores love, grief, and alternate endings. The worlds she creates in the poems expand, contract, change shape, and change course ... These poems ask us to remain open and to circumvent ordinary answers on the route toward extraordinary, nuanced ones"--