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“I hardly knew what poetry was, let alone sex, or marriage—or divorce!”
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“Elizabeth is the poetry editor of The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly Journal .”
“Other times, the breakup sparks an unexpected awakening.”
“The poems push against the binaries of leaving and being left and embrace ongoing love in the wake of loss.”
“Breakups may make us doubt ourselves, but sometimes they make us believers.”
“Just as Carson plays with the form of “tangoes” to tell a non-linear narrative, Millner chooses the rhyming couplet to tell a story of fracture and mirror, becoming and being undone.”
“The severing of an intimate relationship means giving up a vision of life together.”
“__________________________________ The Going is Forever: Poems by Elizabeth Metzger is available from Milkweed Editions.”
“Louise Gluck, Meadowlands If Anne Carson expands marriage into an aesthetic conversation with Keats, Gluck puts the dissolution of a marriage in an epic conversation with The Odyssey .”
“How has the speaker been changed by places she has lived?”
“In Gluck’s poem “Nostos,” breaking up means a return to the original home as a source of reality that can be sustained: “We look at the world once, in childhood.”
“In deceptively plain diction, the hurdle of one love relationship provokes an exploration of desire and belonging.”
“She is Max Ritvo’s literary executor.”
“Writing The Going Is Forever made me challenge my own identity as wife, mother, and daughter.”
“This quest to believe in love again, while doubting whether it can be found is akin to a spiritual awakening.”
“When a relationship ends, language is as much of a casualty as love.”
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“The clarity of questioning in Lim’s work reminds us that poetry, like desire, offers intimacy and containment in moments of crisis and estrangement.”
“* Anne Carson, Beauty of the Husband In Carson’s “Essay in 29 Tangoes,” each vignette opens with an epigraph by John Keats as the speaker weaves together a meditation on Keats’ concept of beauty as truth and her husband’s beauty and infidelity.”
“According to Sexton, divorce is both a door and a purging of “the rat inside of me.” Leaving a beloved may mean leaving the worst of oneself behind.”