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Quarry (Pitt Poetry Series),Used
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Product Description The modern world's chaos provides the stimulus and sensibility pervading a collection of powerful poems that violently and colorfully narrate the story of a world in steady dissolution. Winner of the 1997 Associated Writing Programs' Award Series in Poetry. Simultaneous.UP. Amazon.com Review Fires burn throughoutQuarry, Joanna Rawson's audacious first book of poems. Flames lick the sky above Los Angeles in "After the Riots," smoke rises from the immigrant shantytown of "Border Camp," and carnations wilt off the mantelpiece in "Flaming June." Yet despite this social and political context, Rawson's fires are an inner phenomenon, ignited by desire and extinguished only by the mind's exhaustion. Like the thunder in T.S. Eliot'sThe Waste Land, which promises and then fails to bring rain to a dry land, the fires of Rawson's poems signal a release from the agonies of desire at first, but ultimately cannot soothe. Quarry also has room for more domestic observations. "How Strange and Fine to Get So Near to It" finds the narrator eating noodles on her back stoop, watching the nextdoor neighbor's naked children play in a dumpster outside a raided crack house during a hailstorm: "They surface from the garbage bins for air, / shouting into the new world / with such absurd laughter / even we agree. Great weather, great soup, / great trash of fine things." To Rawson, the world is a "great trash of fine things," and the most reasonable response is playfulness, despite its miseries. What sets Rawson apart from her similarly cool and ambiguous contemporaries is an acute ear for the rhythms and nuances of colloquial language, auguring many fine poems ahead. Edward Skoog
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