2010 Old Seventy Creek Poetry Press Series Prize
The Broken Meadow
by
Temple Cone
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Now for the news:
Now and then, Shaindel (Shaindel Beers, poetry editor) falls in love. Sometimes years will pass without an episode, but when it happens, it’s a blazing passion. When a new flame flares up, I’ve learned, it’s best for me to stop what I’m doing and read. Last week in the midst of a downpour of sorrows—which she sent through email, facebook, twitter, as she waded through thousands of submitted poems—there came such a break in the clouds.
Here’s some of what she said about her new poet-crush:
“Temple Cone is a poet whose intelligence is matched by his heart, whose poems speak truth, even when the truth, in these times especially, is one we’d rather not see.”
What truths is Temple showing us that we’d rather not see? You can now read The Soldiers, What the Classics Teach, and Burning Sappho.
Read another review below:
Temple Cone’s The Broken Meadow sings a pliant song, agile in shape-changing through a garden of forms, notably the sonnet, where it finds a structured music, erupting into longer freer narrative poems, and carving through to heart’s image without ornament. Through all of this variation of poetic strategy and effect there beats a steady heart of realization that embodies real devotion, not cheap piety, at the flesh-made world and its wonders of love. The precision and observation in the final lines of “Two Trees” is worth the whole book, but there are many other marvels here, along with a ghost narrative of a lost boy learning to love the imperfectly formed natural world and his own flaws. Along with a chorus of songbirds and birds of prey, it is especially the waterfowl, bittern, heron and kingfisher, which provide this poet his sacred icons, as they fly between elements of water and air. This is a poet adept at singing in any form, who navigates with skill.
--Cathryn Hankla
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