Render
A Poetry book. I was introduced with this book from my English professor. He hosts radio shows and had interviewed Collin Kelley in...
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "To render is to strip away, to make clear. With RENDER, Collin Kelley has a story to tell, one that is shaped by language that both shutters and illuminates meaning. Kelley's elegiac, soaring series of poems, serve as an open invitation to join him on his brave, ribald romp across the landscape of his memory. What unfolds is as intimate and at the same time, as exposed as underthings pinned to a clothesline. RENDER presents a deconstructed world which Kelley brilliantly reconstructs through his deft use of language: a world which is Kelley's for the mending, amending, and, ultimately, ours for the rending." Vanessa Daou"
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 78 pages
- ISBN: 9781937420345 / 0
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Chronologically presented through 40 years, remembered/imagined narrative snapshot poems,some with "pop" references, capture episodes of growing up gay and observing relationships within family. Favorite In the longest section of this book, "aperture," Kelley captures the paranoia of adolescence. The poems encompass world events, pop culture, and personal history with seeming ease. A poem about Three Mile Island is followed by one that charts a mother's obsession with her CB radio: "We let the devil in that day, / antenna rising like... I was introduced with this book from my English professor. He hosts radio shows and had interviewed Collin Kelley in the past. As an assignment,we were given poetry books from the professor's personal collection, and we had to choose a poem, analyze, and explain how it relates to us. After reading this book and finishing the assignment,...
