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Shortlisted for the 2005 Atlantic Poetry Prize, the 2005 Dartmouth Book Award and the 2005 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry\n\nUndone is a cornucopia of passionate poems arranged into three sections. \"Forgotten\" has mostly to do with the aftermath of a heart-rending breakup; \"Kindred\" features poems on fellow artists in poetry, music and painting (ranging from Georgia O'Keeffe to Snoopy, beagle-novelist); in \"Apprentice,\" leaving is transformed into celebration, poem after poem about fierce loving of a world that we will have to leave. In these hard-hitting, highly personal poems, lamentation is a key note. Crushing loneliness weighs heavily on the spirit. But Sue Goyette has ways of sharing pain with a compensating lift: wonderful flights of metaphor, language charged with verbal energy. \"Isnât that our job,\" she asks, \"to coax out the light in the story?\" It's a job she takes to heart and performs brilliantly.\n\nThe poems in Undone have the amplitude proper to \"watching wide\" -- a discipline good for seeing shooting stars and, as this book illustrates, all other kinds of light in a darkness palpable but never enveloping, not when probed so truly and sung so beautifully. |
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