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Flow Blue | 
 enlarge | Author: Sarah Kennedy
Publisher: Elixir Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1283157
Media: Paperback
Pages: 96
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.3
ISBN: 0970934254
Dewey Decimal Number: 811
EAN: 9780970934253
ASIN: 0970934254
Publication Date: April 4, 2002
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Flow Blue 9" Plate by Frank Beardmore, Trenton. The pattern is Clyde.
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 Poetry as therapy, but better than much of that genre August 19, 2008
Robert P. Beveridge (Cleveland, OH)
Sarah Kennedy, Flow Blue (Elixir, 2002)
There can be no doubt that Sarah Kennedy is a fine poet. What keeps me from wholeheartedly recommending this collection, however, is the obsession aspect; when an entire collection pounds away at the same themes over and over and over again, it can get a little oppressive. But taken in small doses, this is fabulous stuff;
"He will never find me, curled here
under the last stalks of the garden. Let's go,
he yells, but I watch the bean-vines
braiding gold corn to tomatoes
and stay silent."
("Grounded")
I suggest getting your hands on a copy of this one and going through it, at most, one or two poems a day, leavening the reading with a number of other collections; this will go down easier. ***
 New American Gothic June 18, 2002
K. Collins (Newtown, PA USA)
5 out of 9 found this review helpful
As a reader of poetry, I am struck not only by how well Flow Blue's poems weave themselves together, but how the poems themselves flow one into the next, weaving a dense tapestry of images and stories.As a reader of fiction, I am struck by just how well these poems narrate the persona's journey from confused adolescence through to womanhood, reflecting back on childhood in a way that is both exotic and familiar. Reading each poem compels the reader to move forward into the next, building a life story in moments. The persona herself embodies American womanhood in a way that echoes films like Smooth Talk and the end of Lolita, but without arrogance or malice. As she runs [or was she taken] from her strict parent's house at the behest of her sister and into her sister's husband's arms, she turns from a manipulated child to a mother and a woman who carves another life from her own. I would recommend this book to lovers of poetry, I also think Flow Blue would make a great choice for someone who doesn't think or doesn't know s/he likes poetry. The constructions are strong, and the images are vivid without stretching the mind to grasp them, and the story sets up a strong narrative with accessible language that allows the reader to see the polarity between American beauty and American darkness.
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