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The Eye that Desires to Look Upward (1987) | Steven Cramer
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The Eye that Desires to Look Upward (1987). The chief delight of this first book, [Cramer’s] graceful lines draw the reader’s attention like good conversation, easing along in their sweep through the poem. There is a disarming beauty and a resonant calm to Steven Cramer’s poetry. The graces and sly ironies of the world haunt these poems, and they are as startling as starlight rippling through an empty meadow. This is a superb debut. David St. John. The Eye that Desires to Look Upward. Galileo Press, 1987.
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Clangings (2012) | Steven Cramer
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Vol 46, No. 2;. Spring/Summer, 2011,. No 3, and. Rafael Campo, MD, Harvard Medical School, author of. The Desire to Heal: A Doctor’s Education in Empathy, Identity, and Poetry. Is a wild ride.”. May well be the most disturbing book of verse ever written! Binding the warp of psychotic blurts into a poetic weft is one way to make all of language unbearably strange. But the poems here disturb and illuminate that’s the magic. Jean McGarry, author of. A Bad and Stupid Girl. Is magnificent. Word! Countdown to ...
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Poems | Steven Cramer
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First I denied the noseeums . . . Back on my wings . . . I hear, in my phone . . . I hear the dinner plates gossip . . . Poem of the Moment, Massachusetts Poetry Festival. Dickey’s death feels all over me . . . Black cats ring bells . . . I’m speaking with my mother’s voice . . . So I left my apartment . . . Okay, here’s what we did. . . Dear ears, my eyes keep paired for you. A Basket of Eggs. Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand. Dialogue for the Left and Right Hand. Everyone Who Left Us.
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Interviews | Steven Cramer
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8217;It is impossible to say just what I mean.’ I was 17 when I first read that line, and it pierced me then and still does. In some ways,. Pays homage to that one line. “. Interview with Steven Cramer on. The Poetry of Recovery. 8220;The structure of the pantoum the insistent recurrence of its lines seems like the right form for the way lost loved ones keep ‘turning up’ in memory.”. Interview with Steven Cramer at. Interview and Sarabande in Education Guide to. Was silenced.”. 8220;Restraint, in art, gr...
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The Eye that Desires to Look Upward (1987) | Steven Cramer
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The Eye that Desires to Look Upward (1987). The chief delight of this first book, [Cramer’s] graceful lines draw the reader’s attention like good conversation, easing along in their sweep through the poem. There is a disarming beauty and a resonant calm to Steven Cramer’s poetry. The graces and sly ironies of the world haunt these poems, and they are as startling as starlight rippling through an empty meadow. This is a superb debut. David St. John. The Eye that Desires to Look Upward. Galileo Press, 1987.
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Prose | Steven Cramer
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In the Mode of Disappearance. A Fish and a Pity. The Terrible Whispers of Our Elders: Remembering Donald Justice. The Iowa Review Web. Interview with Ellen Bryant Voigt. Review of Chase Twichell’s. New and Selected Poems. On Dickinson’s “I cannot live with you”. On Coleridge’s “This Lime-tree Bower My Prison. Books by Steven Cramer. Goodbye to the Orchard. Dialogue for the Left and the Right Hand. The Eye That Desires to Look Upward.
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Reviews | Steven Cramer
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8220;Wrenched word combinations arise out of using sound in this way: Obituary magi, greener chameleon, turquoise girls, blue-sprained boys, head’s high beams, glittering snow loaves, glister of venom, seraph cigarette . . . combinations that make our hearts beat faster, our synapses glow.”. Boston Area Small Press and Poetry Scene Blog. This is a fantastic read and an enormous gift for anyone who appreciates good poetry. Commentary on “Bad. 8221; Jill Allyn Rosser,. Best American Poetry Sunday Blog.
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Goodbye to the Orchard (2004) | Steven Cramer
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Goodbye to the Orchard (2004). In Steven Cramer’s fourth collection of poems, we encounter a winning combination of grace, eclectic intelligence, and dryly comic self-regard. Goodbye to the Orchard. Is a refreshing tonic to the claustrophobia of much contemporary poetry. Cramer takes subjects that are familiar at first glance and makes them oddly affecting, weirdly fresh. Icons of high and popular culture appear in unpredictable ways, so that as a whole. Goodbye to the Orchard. Goodbye to the Orchard.
