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Breathtakingly intense poems about language, love, and the loss of purity in the world
Logan's newest work, The Night Battle, reveals to readers a rich, sensuous world where even pigeons "roost in judgment" like "mottled, maculate angels" and Long Island mothers lounge at a swimming club drinking the politeness of servants "like a sin" while "summer broke the dark with lightning storms." A section of the book entitled "Milton's Tongue" finds an old college "gaudy with painted ghosts" and an ancient church filled with "antique lives we have no common language with, except that they too were lies." Donald Hall, writing in the Iowa Review, said, "Logan writes like an angel--an elegant, literary angel." Indeed, Logan's world is populated not only by angels, but also by the lost souls of great poets and humble country people alike--it is a rich, sensuous world aching to retain beauty in a landscape pocked by sin.
Like Ovid on the Black Sea, the restless stranger
might feel such cruel beauty monotonous.
But, inshore, a crusty alligator steams,
nosing into reeds to let off passengers
or take on canvas sacks of mail,
as if the weather had never once been tender
or required, like love, a moment of surrender.
--from "Florida in January"
* Logan's last collection, Vain Empires, was a New York Times Notable Book
- Sales Rank: #4034306 in Books
- Published on: 1999-10-01
- Released on: 1999-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.42" h x .32" w x 5.60" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 95 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Technically skillful, well-traveled and impressively knowledgeable, Logan (Vain Empires) couples a welcome faculty for observation with a narrow range of sour emotions in his fifth book of poems, many of which invoke earlier poets Logan admires. In sonnets, tercets, ballad-stanzas, blank verse, even in blues ("Blues for Penelope"), Logan draws heavily on Robert Lowell and on Elizabeth Bishop to find verbal equivalents for resentment and disappointment. "Reading the Greek Gospels" glowers in the wrathful tones of the early Lowell: "Raw Christians call the parish to account/ for bearish interest in the judgement day... The neighbor cats walk snarling through the mire." The later Lowell's aphoristic tendencies pervade several travel poems focused on personal and political disillusion and decline, from short work set in England and Florida (where Logan teaches) to the concluding sequence, "The Fall of Byzantium." Logan's attempts at Bishop's revelatory similes falter after his heavy-handed endings: English landscape, seen from the air, divulges an unsurprising truthA"We never escape very far/ from the deaths that await us below." Elegies to Bishop and to Amy Clampitt imitate those poets' styles more directly, while Logan's sonnets about famous people and places owe much to late-1930s Auden: "The maps were old; the X had been erased/ that marked the valley of their chosen fate." Logan does best in his well-crafted ballad stanzas, whose chief precedents (Bishop and Derek Walcott) don't prevent him from finding original music. "Small Bad Town" discovers the perfect words for an endless disconsolate suburb, still stuck in the 1950s: "The fractional white moons/ of the satellite dishes/ bother the broken noons/ and the mortal wishes// of the local housewife/ burning from her soaps./ Time sends invitations/ in little envelopes." (Oct.) FYI: Also in October, the UP of Florida will publish Reputations of the Tongue: On Poets and Poetry, a collection of Logan's essays and reviews. ($34.95 288p ISBN 0-8130-1697-5)
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From Library Journal
Logan is a master of prosody, deftly working with tercets and sonnets, ballad stanzas and blues. He is quick with wit and wisdom and not shy about humor. Most impressive, though, is his control of language; he is clearly conscious of getting the right word in the right order, moving as is appropriate between serious, conversational, and even flippant tones. In "Gray's Anatomy" a woman complains, "O doctor, dear doctor, my husband,/ he calls them the rudest names," going on to list the pet names her spouse has used for their genitals: "He calls mine Annie Oakley./ He calls his Jesse James"; his "Cutty Sark" rounds her "Cape of Good Hope"; and his "fountain pen" leaks in her "business envelope." Finally, he "puts his thumb like a diplomat/ deep into Vietnam." At once funny and sadAand, in the end, thought-provokingAthis is the style of much of Logan's work. In "Long Island Sins," the speaker recalls the seductive women lying around the swimming pool of his youth: "We drank in their politeness like a sin." Again, Vietnam is the closing image, representing the true loss of innocence. Penelope sings the blues ("Ulysses, honey, when are you coming home?"), and in a series of sonnets Logan signs for Larkin, Kant, Auden, and Marx. Elegies for Moss, Merrill, Clampett, Bishop, and others are among the strongest poems in this volume. Highly recommended.ALouis McKee, Painted Bride Arts Ctr., Philadelphia
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Review
Adam And Eve
After Horace: 1. Beauty
After Horace: 2. Luxury
The Alexander Sarcophagus
The Aqueduct Of Valens
Bad Dream
The Basilica Cistern
Blues For Penelope
Border Sonnets
Brief Lives: 1. Larkin
Brief Lives: 2. Kant
Brief Lives: 3. Auden At C-- C--
Brief Lives: 4. Marx
Cambridge Hours: 1. Leavis Before Christ's
Cambridge Hours: 2. Reading The Greek Gospels
The Church Of Christ Pantocrator
Dear Ac
Dear Dd
Dear Hm; For Howard Moss
Dear Jm
The Dune House
Elegy
The English Light
The Fall Of Byzantium
Florida In January
For A Woman In United Germany
For The Hostages
The Galata Tower
Gray's Anatomy
The Great Palace
Haghia Sophia
Kariye Camii
The Late Perpendicular Of England
The Lesser Depths
The Livery Of Byzantium
Living
Long Island Sins: 1. Seductions Of The Swimming Club
Long Island Sins: 2. A Pilgrim Of Pilgrims
Long Island Sins: 3. After A Line By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Manhattan Transfers: 1. Inferno
Manhattan Transfers: 2. Purgatorio
Manhattan Transfers: 3. Paradiso
Mother On The St. Johns
My Father As Madame Butterfly
Niobe
Nothing
The Old College
Paradise
Paradise Lost: 1. The Cities Of The Plain
Paradise Lost: 2. San Giorgio Dei Greci
Paradise Lost: 3. The Old God
Paradise Lost: 4. Nativity
Paradise Lost: 5. On The Crucifixions
Paradise Lost: 6. Eden In The Dustbowl
The Pera Palas
The Shock Of The New
Small Bad Town
Song
The Spice Bazaar
St. John And The Wasps
Sundays In The South
The Theodosian Walls
The Woods At M-
The Words
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�
Most helpful customer reviews
5 of 10 people found the following review helpful.
Complete Mastery
By A Customer
Logan has given us his best poems tempered by a sensual spirituality only an Apollo could bring. Bravo to a worthy man of letters, one of the last few we have.
3 of 8 people found the following review helpful.
The Naked Emperor
By Richard Attanasio
The Naked Emperor
William Logan is a naked emperor of modern letters. He proudly dubs himself "the most hated man in American poetry" for his semi-coherent but clearly dismissive reviews of contemporary work, then proffers his own mediocre soup of mandarin foolishness and weird metaphors, sometimes with laughably inept rhymes, and dares the world to see them as they are.
But let's cut to the text: we needn't look far. The 2nd sentence of the first poem is, "You wouldn't realize summer's forest,/ so much like New England, grew in a mattress of marsh,..." Without distracting frippery, Logan says that a forest like New England (not New England's) grows in a mattress! The clumsiness is stupefying. Shortly, still in the first poem, we come upon sandhill cranes (which are) aristocrats with flaring eyes, icepick heads, delicate ballerina-like bodies high-stepping, whose veering indifference (or indifferent veering?) needs repair, not forthcoming from storm (??) nor egrets huddled like origami paper, and so on. I wouldn't blame you if you don't believe me, but you'll find this mishmash on the first page, in "Florida in January." At the bottom of the page you'll see "a crusty alligator steams,/nosing into reeds to let off passengers/or take on canvas sacks of mail" which so entranced the unidentified "editorial reviewer" posted above.
The second poem, "Sundays in the South," uses rhyme in the 2nd and 4th line of each quatrain.
I think.
It starts with "banana ...manana", "fruit ... root" "say ... prey", but then veers, indifferently or not, into "..sun ... Sin" "Christians .. sinning" (honest, I couldn't make this up) "angels .. cannonballs" "courthouse square ... air conditioner" "fire ... armatures" before repairing to ".. dance ... distance" and finally "consent .. diminishment."
I haven't read all the book yet, but what I've seen is not inconsistent with what I've quoted. Another delicious rhyme (in "Nothing" - perhaps a more appropriate title for this book) is ".. green naugahyde of sea....engine by GE."
I have yet to find wisdom in this book, or beautiful language, or well-observed and described reality. I've found clumsy rhymes, bizarre perceptions, and unintentionally laugh-provoking poems.
3 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Typical Academic Verse
By Book Fan
Like most academic poets, Logan fails to transcend the petty boundaries of the incestuous world of MFA programs and the petty egos and infantile personalities ruling that world. One sees flashes of brilliance in Logan's work, but his poems are the poems of a man who is always looking over his shoulder, always striving to impress, always terrified of what the hacks in the world of academia think of him.
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