http://mattfrassica.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:50:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://mattfrassica.com http://mattfrassica.com/2009/08/31/memory-keeping/ http://mattfrassica.com/2009/08/31/memory-keeping/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:10:47 +0000 Matt http://mattfrassica.wordpress.com/?p=50 ]]> In the poem that gives Angela Patten’s new collection its title, the fossilized tongue of St. Anthony sits under glass, a reminder of “the numinous particulars of flesh.” As it takes on a meaning beyond words, the severed tongue is a wry exemplar for these eloquent memories and telling details. Read on>

]]> http://mattfrassica.com/2009/08/31/memory-keeping/feed/ 0 Matt seven days logo http://mattfrassica.com/2009/08/31/into-the-wild/ http://mattfrassica.com/2009/08/31/into-the-wild/#comments Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:02:12 +0000 Matt http://mattfrassica.wordpress.com/?p=42 ]]> Despite its title, In No One’s Land is far from a lonely dispatch from barren territory. It’s more like a settler’s journal — Little House on the Prairie set in the mountains and narrated by a chain-smoking Laura going commando. Ackerson-Kiely’s free-verse poems typically start with an observation of the domestic or rural world, then shift into a shadow-world accessible only through the play of words or memory. This shift can be disorienting but also gives the reader a brief giddy sensation, like putting on someone else’s glasses. Read on>

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