Blasphemer, by Bill Yarrow
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Poetry painted on a bomb falling out of a plane. BLASPHEMER doesn't fuck around. Yarrow is wonderfully possessed.—Bud Smith, F-250 Enthusiasm like percolating lava courses through these poems, scraping away all that is dull and obvious. These poems are not so much narratives or experiments in form, but explorations, and not just explorations even, but celebrations of poetic conceits turned inside out so that only the star-crawling blood of the imagination remains.—John Goode, Graduating from Eternity With inquiries into both faith and love, Bill Yarrow's BLASPHEMER provides the irreverent gaze you were looking for in subversive poetics. The hot blush, too.—Heather Fowler, Bare Bulbs Swinging
Blasphemer, by Bill Yarrow- Amazon Sales Rank: #2973902 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-12
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .35" w x 6.00" l, .47 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 152 pages
About the Author Bill Yarrow is the author of Blasphemer (Lit Fest Press 2015), The Lice of Christ (MadHat Presss 2014), Incompetent Translations and Inept Haiku (Cervena Barva Press 2013), and Pointed Sentences (BlazeVOX 2012). His poems have appeared in many print and online magazines including Poetry International, RHINO, THRUSH, Confrontation, Contrary, DIAGRAM, FRiGG, Uno Kudo, Gargoyle, and PANK. He is a Professor of English at Joliet Junior College.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. To give you a sense of how infectious this book is, after I read it I felt ill By Jaime Reyes Bill Yarrow’s very own brand of blasphemy often ends up sounding less like conventional irreverence than like an offbeat celebration of what Stevens called “things as they are.” Yarrow’s complex view of reality owes a lot to his optimism and LOL sense of humor; he’s finally not a naysayer—let alone one of those increasingly numerous religious “nones” who cling to neither church nor belief in God.Here’s Yarrow poking at the infirmity of his age—and at God; I quote the poem in its entirety:CAR ALARMWire’s shot.Timing’s off.Plugs and pointsneed to be replaced.Gaskets smashed.Hoses rotted.That’s the body for you.Most mornings won’t start.Dings, nicks, and scratcheson the exterior. Failinginternal combustion organs.God the mechanicis a little booked up.He’ll see you after you’re dead. Jesus! I hate poems like this!Yarrow’s terse description of his decrepit body as a broken-down jalopy is funny enough to preface the ironic line about God’s being “booked up.” Despite the surprise power of what his indented punch line says, Yarrow loves poems like this, i.e., poems that dispel platitudinous pieties. His humor at times approaches that of the now 90-year-old, somewhat overlooked, New York City poet Edward Field.Part Three of Blasphemer collects thirteen “found poems”; the book is a capacious 149 pages composed of six parts, each containing thirteen lucky poems. Yarrow’s found poems recycle original source material by such unlikely bedfellows as Jack Spicer, Hieronymus Bosch, and Sir Thomas Browne. Elsewhere, Yarrow commandeers Flaubert, D. H. Lawrence, and Ezra Pound (in the blisteringly titled “The Pissant Cantos”!). Considering Yarrow’s fondness for refrain lines—anaphora—he cares about pantoums, ghazals, and sestinas. He’s also wondrously attracted to the length of lines increasing so as to create a visual image on the page. His preference for the “staircase stanza,”—which, so to speak, “steps down” line after line—as well as his occasional preference for poems with right-hand margins, suggest how, with classical training, he has smartly moved beyond knee-jerk formatting.You will find much to cherish in Yarrow’s new book, not least its range, its versatility. Time and again Yarrow has fun, evoking an oy vey wisdom you won’t easily forget.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Is All Of Life Smoke And Mirrors By Susan Tepper In Blasphemer, a normal sized book with spreading ideas, poet Bill Yarrow invites the reader to examine the duality of nature, God, sex, and just about anything else a person might encounter, willingly or otherwise, during our short lifetimes. If that isn't provocation enough, this book's back cover questions the author's motivations by asking: "Is Bill Yarrow a blasphemer? You decide." Well, besides being provoked and jolted and smashed around a bit, I was also mesmerized by the quick-fever aspect of Yarrow's presentation, of his thoughts set down in the form of poetry. Even this classical book cover (quite beautiful) presents a backdrop of bright pink building facade juxtaposed against a classical carved image. This pink could be a fabric used as a drape or a smoke-screen. Is this a book of smoke and mirrors? Is the poet tampering with the reader's self-imposed views? I don't know. But the ideas presented as poems kept me in position during one reading of the entire book. Most highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. love, and western cultural in this shocking and inspiring ... By dramaqueen17 Yarrow's work questions traditional religion, love, and western cultural in this shocking and inspiring work. "There's No Crying in Poetry" was extremely well done and my personal favorite.
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