Love Alone: Eighteen Elegies for Rog
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (734 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312026021 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 64 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-07-09 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bernie Gourley said Poems on life in the shadow of a partner's terminal illness. This is a collection of modern verse offering the poet’s experience of the death of his partner and the years leading up to it. Said partner, Roger Horwitz, succumbed to AIDS during the late 80’s. It’s a tale of scouring and worrying—scouring because any infection could be fatal and worrying for the same reason. It tells of melancholy holidays, exhausting doctor’s office visits, and then the mourning. If I make it sound like Monette just jotted off about the mundane aspects of life, it’s this approach that captures t. "Soul enhancing proof of love in a poetry of death." according to A Customer. This is a book to carry with you. Unfortunately I did, and lost it. The effort I've put into trying to get another copy is testament to the power and eloquence of the eighteen poems it contains. This work juxtaposes the power of love and the raveges of death with humbling clraity and emotion. I used it to uplift me when I lost faith in life, and inspire me when I lost direction in my work.Mr Monette says in his preface that it was written almost without pause in the months after his lover's death. The immediacy of his grief, the violence in his anger a. Heather Booth said breathless poems. It is worth buying the book simply for the first poem, "Here". Each of the pieces moves at a fever pitch, leaving the reader unable to pause even for breath, until the poem ends and leaves you holding the book, wanting more, but needing a break, unable to turn the page. They wear you out reading them, but in the best way possible. Monette documents the death of his partner, and the knowledge of his own advancing illness, and he does so in a way that takes you with him : you feel the urgency, pain, sadness, beauty, love, and preciousness of life right a
An eighteen-poem cycle on the death of his lover from AIDS emphasizes the power of love and its survival through pain and anger, and the tragedy and magnitude of a terrifying twist of fate and its effect on a generation.
Written "for those who are mad with loss," it stands apart from its predecessors, and indeed from most contemporary poetry, in both intent and execution. Though I do not share his worship of The Gay Couple, and in fact find it irritating, this book will be a balm for those who see AIDS primarily as a deadly assault on an already besieged army of lovers. . The poems use remembered episodes to celebrate "that two men ceased to be single," but more often ride express the rage felt during Rog's dying and the ache of being the remaining half of a couple. Rob Schmeider, BostonCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Monette, best known for his light novels and movie novelizations, is also a gifted poet wh