Alloy Larry Johnson 9781625490735 Books
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The classical formal sensibility of Larry Johnson's Alloy is no indicator of antiquated, old-fashioned verse; these poems are utterly contemporary in their strong, sharp language, and timeless in the themes they evoke.
Alloy Larry Johnson 9781625490735 Books
I feel incompetent to review Larry Johnson's Alloy. He taxes my lazy brain, he sends me running to the dictionary, he makes me think. These 45 poems burn as hot and slowly cool to a solid and indestructible as hot steel. His poems are both ultra-modern and classic. He is one of those rare modern poets who remembers that a poem should have solid structure. He writes about historical persons and events - most noticeably about the Roman Empire, the history of which he clearly loves, and about favorite poets and composers such as Yukio Mishima and Scriabin and Shostakovich, "Deaths of the Great and Good Composers" is a deceptively simple poem in which he catalogs the last moments in the lives of great composers: "Vaughan Williams' last meal was English biscuits/ And bananas. That night he dreamed forever."Johnson writes with intelligence, passion and humor. Containing all of those elements in spades is "Yukio Mishima Returns as Godzilla," a brilliantly humorous poem that begins: "Slickly ascending, godlike, from Tokyo's harbor,/ Mishima returns in a gray rubber Godzilla suit - / His face, grinning, shines through the open mouth."
These are poems to be read again and again.
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Alloy Larry Johnson 9781625490735 Books Reviews
How very seldom does a poet advance beyond those youthful skills.
If you’re Keats, who cares, but for me, especially, as I get older,
the poet whose writing takes those sometimes lurching cadences
and awkward rhymes of youth and turns them into truth and grace,
sometimes in a whisper of fire, sometimes in a nudge of irony
that’s the poet for me, a poet who gets better as the years go by,
helping us understand how we burn in the fierce sunshine of our days.
That’s how the work of Larry Johnson in Alloy strikes me as we face
the terrible contradictions of living here, where, as Johnson puts it,
“Life’s either less like a movie or much more.”
What I admire so much about the characters in Alloy is that Larry Johnson makes them real. Whether Roman, Greek, English,
Russian or Japanese, he demythologizes them, brings them down from some metaphorical Mount Rushmore, turns them
into honest-to-god human beings. His Alfred the Great is sweaty, smelly, lusty and both profane and elegant---the real deal.
Another very appealing thing about these characters is that Johnson often employs both an in-your-face and subtle humor
with great skill and a telling bite. If you doubt this, read his "Yukio Mishima Returns as Godzilla." There is much tenderness,
too, such as in his poems for Jim Whitehead, John Berryman and Donald Justice. All in all, Larry Johnson's poems are the
perfect reminder to the current era of poets that poetry and artistry are not mutually exclusive. Meter and rhyme still matter.
Structure still matters. Narrative still matters.The Greek and Roman language and canon still matter. Alloy is a wonderful book
that both teaches and practices what it teaches. It matters. Larry Johnson matters. Do yourself a favor. Read it.
I feel incompetent to review Larry Johnson's Alloy. He taxes my lazy brain, he sends me running to the dictionary, he makes me think. These 45 poems burn as hot and slowly cool to a solid and indestructible as hot steel. His poems are both ultra-modern and classic. He is one of those rare modern poets who remembers that a poem should have solid structure. He writes about historical persons and events - most noticeably about the Roman Empire, the history of which he clearly loves, and about favorite poets and composers such as Yukio Mishima and Scriabin and Shostakovich, "Deaths of the Great and Good Composers" is a deceptively simple poem in which he catalogs the last moments in the lives of great composers "Vaughan Williams' last meal was English biscuits/ And bananas. That night he dreamed forever."
Johnson writes with intelligence, passion and humor. Containing all of those elements in spades is "Yukio Mishima Returns as Godzilla," a brilliantly humorous poem that begins "Slickly ascending, godlike, from Tokyo's harbor,/ Mishima returns in a gray rubber Godzilla suit - / His face, grinning, shines through the open mouth."
These are poems to be read again and again.
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