doordaa.blogg.se - Brown Glass Windows by Devorah Major

Ironically, Ranger is killed during a drive-by shooting just as heīegins to get his life together. Ranger, the son, has allowed the horror of Vietnam and his drugĪddiction to ruin his marriage and his relationship with his son. Life in San Francisco isn't all that great for the Evermanįamily.

Retrieved from īy Devorah Major Curbstone Press, May 2002 $15.95, ISBN 7-X

MLA style: "Brown Glass Windows." The Free Library.

Image by image, thought by thought, image by thought, by question, by why? Why, in coming up with analogy, comparison, simile, to describe her work, does my mouth come up dry, and I’m left searching for “belt loops, dry socks, and cigarettes….” Yet my mouth is filled with “true flavor. Rancourt blazes new trails with her use of dashes-cutting time and adding time, and fierce use of line breaks that move a poem forward, reflective and visual, sensual and philosophical. Rancourt writes, “Violence is a heavy thing,” compares the sand of war to makeup that comes in “metal saucer discs with a compact mirror,” as she bears witness from life how female veterans must not only fight war, but oppression, victimization.

Why would I compare Rancourt’s work to the work of another female poet (especially one as canonized as Dickinson)? Why not Brian Turner, Yousef Komannyakka, Owen, Sassoon, insert name of another male poet who has written about war. Why am I more familiar with Dickinson than any story before her time, before white privilege erased the voices they didn’t want to hear. I would lie if I didn’t admit that my first impulse when writing a response to “murmurs at the gate” was to say “if Emily Dickinson went to war….” But Rancourt’s work is more deserving than a comparison to Dickinson, to the extent that the comparison discounts her work, because her work makes me question why it is that Dickinson comes to mind. Poet and storywriter Major returns, less forcefully, to the extended black family theme of An Open Weave (1995) in her second outing: a tale that conjures up a centuries-old ghost as narrator in detailing the tragic consequences of Vietnam, drugs, racism, and urban renewal in the decline of a once-thriving black community.