A Raft A Boat A Bridge Katherine Soniat 9781935716181 Books
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Within the composure of Katherine Soniat's phrasing in A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge something unsettled emerges and will not rest. She presents us with a richly conceived world 'given to see through.' But the seeing is rigorous. These poems are revelatory. -Ron Slate How might one move quietly and slowly enough-crossing water to land or to ether, to high altitudes or low, the strange or the everyday-to give us time to dream what happened on both banks? In A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge, Katherine Soniat's beautifully understated poems sometimes pass through places of great pain, but ultimately beyond them as well. Myth and history, mountains and deserts, grief and intimacy are all transformed in this collection into a poetry of depth, dignity, and richness of language. -Lisa Lewis One kind of lyric is a vertical narrative that demands dense fuel to attain escape velocity. For Katherine Soniat, the heavy metals of the everyday yield a superheated plasma that seem virtually effortlessly extracted (though it is never so) "The astronomers call for marvels, a cosmic shower / in the pre-dawn sky. But this dog won't be energized / by prediction." The epicenter of her poems' orbit is the heart of a long and rich poetic tradition, which means it is also the human heart, and that is just were it ought to be, for Soniat's masterful work reveals again and again that tradition's inexhaustible power. -T.R. Hummer Katherine Soniat is a conjurer. She possesses the third eye-that extra sense-in her astonishing and scintillant fusion of image with concept. Her synesthetic mind fashions images the rest of us must envy. This poet carries her own microscope through which we see a new order buoyant, surprising, and rare. Her intelligence ranges over a fascinating array of subjects as she reminds us of what true poetry can do. A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge returns us to the choral pavement of its origins. -Tina Barr A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge guides us through and beyond an ever-dissolving world's beauty and brutality. We enter the atmosphere of Katherine Soniat's brilliant, startling, and intimate poems, and we emerge shaken and renewed. -Lee Upton The Swing Girl was selected as Best Collection of 2011 by the Poetry Commission of North Carolina (A.O. Young Award). A Shared Life won the Iowa Poetry Prize given by the University of Iowa Press, and a Virginia Prize for Poetry selected by Mary Oliver. Her fourth collection Alluvial was a finalist for Library of Virginia Center for the Book Award and Notes of Departure won the Camden Poetry Prize, selected by Sonia Sanchez. Soniat has served on the faculty at Hollins University and Virginia Tech. Currently an instructor in the Great Smokies Writers Program at University of North Carolina at Asheville, she lives on a deep ravine with a mother bear and two cubs.
A Raft A Boat A Bridge Katherine Soniat 9781935716181 Books
A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge by Katherine SoniatThe poems in Katherine Soniat's new book of poems, A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge, reverberate with personal and global threnodies, apocalyptic alarms, romantic philippics, and marital myths, all of which, like "the dust and air" Cassandra is given to see through, Soniat also divines with stunning verbal velocity. One wonders at times if she is even aware of where's she going exactly in her runic narratives and lyrics, but this wonder is less of a distraction than an engaged curiosity about her muse who leaps most freely from trope to image to proclamation to naming. Like the wounded wolf in her poem "Swan Song," Soniat "runs from no one," and in staying put in the midst of her wild place where she no doubt feels threatened by those who are "out to leash the wolves," she emits a powerful howl, as in these final lines from "Swan Song":
The sky's striated and booming (hearts used to be like that).
Winter moon, another celestial rock above the slaughter.
Stray hand, such a playful toy to toss, lifeline exposed to the elements.
Morsel map of the world.
Soniat travels at a speed quicker than light in A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge, arriving at her conclusions, observations, and ideas in a psychic manner that defies speed altogether for its sudden, utterly unexpected revelations. And yet, she still manages somehow to make sense, a sense that often depends more on affective understanding than any logical coherence. These poems are haunted and haunting, decrying a deep personal loss and loneliness whose provenance dates back to her childhood and whose shadow adumbrates her entire life. "Most times I think I lived alone since birth/ as each reassembled house fills with those who never know I leave." Soniat's wisdom lies in her trust of her utterance that emanates from a voice, as Walt Whitman claimed in his poem "Assurances," that has "another voice." This voice in Soniat is deeply chthonic and creaturely in its most human keening, both frightening and enlightening.
Chard deNiord
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A Raft A Boat A Bridge Katherine Soniat 9781935716181 Books Reviews
Katherine Soniat's poetry collection A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge opens one's eyes to brilliant images and time captured in lovely words. I was amazed at the depth of feeling that each poem expressed. I especially like The Card Table (about her family during the Great War), The Bright Blessed Day (which brings to life uplifting times in New Orleans) and the A Happy Couple. If you like lyric poetry, this may be the book for you. Monica Bush
draws you in; Soniat is true to the mirror world of noun and verb, world and perception. She writes with a rare combination of discipline and lightness, her wit always turned toward discernment. This book is true narrative and true lyric at once, too much in the moment to be elegy, but full of praise for the the full arc of love. A remarkable achievement by a poet whose poems have always been impeccable.
A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge by Katherine Soniat
The poems in Katherine Soniat's new book of poems, A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge, reverberate with personal and global threnodies, apocalyptic alarms, romantic philippics, and marital myths, all of which, like "the dust and air" Cassandra is given to see through, Soniat also divines with stunning verbal velocity. One wonders at times if she is even aware of where's she going exactly in her runic narratives and lyrics, but this wonder is less of a distraction than an engaged curiosity about her muse who leaps most freely from trope to image to proclamation to naming. Like the wounded wolf in her poem "Swan Song," Soniat "runs from no one," and in staying put in the midst of her wild place where she no doubt feels threatened by those who are "out to leash the wolves," she emits a powerful howl, as in these final lines from "Swan Song"
The sky's striated and booming (hearts used to be like that).
Winter moon, another celestial rock above the slaughter.
Stray hand, such a playful toy to toss, lifeline exposed to the elements.
Morsel map of the world.
Soniat travels at a speed quicker than light in A Raft, A Boat, A Bridge, arriving at her conclusions, observations, and ideas in a psychic manner that defies speed altogether for its sudden, utterly unexpected revelations. And yet, she still manages somehow to make sense, a sense that often depends more on affective understanding than any logical coherence. These poems are haunted and haunting, decrying a deep personal loss and loneliness whose provenance dates back to her childhood and whose shadow adumbrates her entire life. "Most times I think I lived alone since birth/ as each reassembled house fills with those who never know I leave." Soniat's wisdom lies in her trust of her utterance that emanates from a voice, as Walt Whitman claimed in his poem "Assurances," that has "another voice." This voice in Soniat is deeply chthonic and creaturely in its most human keening, both frightening and enlightening.
Chard deNiord
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