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By Chana Bloch
The poems in Mrs. Dumpty are approximately "a nice fall," the dissolution of an extended and loving marriage, yet they aren't easily documentary or elegiac. What pursuits Chana Bloch is the interior lifestyles: how we're shaped through our losses and our mom and dad' losses, how we research what we have to understand via our intuitions and confusions, how we deny and hold up and eventually become aware of who we're. "I used to be spellbound by way of Mrs. Dumpty. Chana Bloch offers with the so much agonizing own event with hair-raising honesty and, constantly, unwavering keep watch over. Her command of metaphor is actually authoritative. . . . Mrs. Dumpty isn't really a comforting publication, yet I recognize the speaker's infrequent skill to step open air herself, to examine herself and her state of affairs with harrowing candor, wit, hard-won knowledge, deep feeling. the provision of forceful metaphor turns out inexhaustible, the language feels like a residing voice. this can be a attractive collection."-X. J. Kennedy "Chana Bloch's Mrs. Dumpty is an incredibly robust publication. The extra strong the phrases, the extra piercing the photographs, the deeper the therapeutic. that's what genuine poetry can do. and that's what Mrs. Dumpty succeeds in doing: therapeutic with phrases, making this lifestyles livable."-Yehuda Amichai "Whether searing or celebratory, ironic and analytic or rueful and reproachful, Chana Bloch's bitterly sincere poems are as fantastically cadenced as they're poignantly frank. This intimate portrait of a marriage turns into additionally a historical past of lives in movement and therefore a relocating story of likelihood, swap, and survival. For even whereas Bloch deals us a chronicle of ache, she demonstrates that 'the finish of safeguard' is the starting of revelation and transformation, as 'Lightning flares at the home windows / zinc-white' in a 'wind which may force / a nail via a tree trunk.'"-Sandra Gilbert
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But now I'm a married woman. You and I are a man-and-wife, one flesh. Married: you leave father and mother to become that word. One word for the hardness that needs to bury its head in softness, the need that grows teeth, the feast, the naked cleaving, the flooding that can't stop itself and the sadness, after. 27 6 I am scraping egg from the stacked dishes. Married. Hot and cold water get married in the faucet. Still married and nothing I've ever learned will prepare me for what I am learning.
Leviathan churns the waters to a boil. His nostrils are a caldron; his breath, flame. 34 3 The children sit on the rumpled blankets and listen. They listen hard. They're getting it all down for future reference. Tuned to our breath they hear even the quarter tones. They give off vibrations too keen for the ear, like a struck tuning fork that goes on trembling. 35 Crescendo The children, squabbling in the back bedroom: You started. No, you started first. I can hear him too with his right to be angry, his fists pounding on their door.
I'm a child who has heard things she shouldn't. Listening all night at the grownups' door and I can't make sense. Won't. I'm a child hiding from my children. 2 Bedtime stories for the children: The cheetah is the fastest land animal. It has tawny fur marked with black spots. It is easily tamed. Giraffes are the tallest animals on earth. They eat leaves from the tops of trees. Snails move very slowly. They carry their shell-houses on their backs. And for the grown-ups, an ancient tale: The war horse says Ha!