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Poetry. "I am not normally moved by perfection, since I like a little mess in poetry, but when a book achieves the trifecta of truly beautiful balance—precise observation, uncannily accurate words, wildness and depth of heart—it must be as close to perfect as our weird and glorious art can get. Sweeney understands how the profound and the miniscule are interconstitutive qualities of souls and objects in a universe ("Dwarf star with one eye on the moon") and this exploration is inner as well as visible, external. Throughout the book, the speaker is concerned with the continuum of life: from stones and plants and planets, to finches and fire, on to witches and princesses and she honors each form it takes. But at some point, this study of life gives way to the song of one who is heartbroken on the path to creating life. This voice sings and cries in such exquisite expression of anguish that art and life find themselves gazing at each other in shock. What good is perfection when the most precious and longed-for star—the one that guided the years—vanishes from the huge dark sky? Art remains and perhaps it comforts as it triumphs here. Sweeney is dazzling—if that matters. I think it does. I am abnormally moved by the perfection of this art. I am crushed by it."—Brenda Shaughnessy
Little Spells, by Jennifer K. Sweeney- Amazon Sales Rank: #1845080 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: .50" h x 5.90" w x 9.70" l, .37 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 95 pages
Review ''Jennifer K. Sweeney's Little Spells carries us into one of the most primal of human experiences, the longing for a child. Through an abundance of strange and resonant images, we are taken into the paired states of desire and disappointment, bounty and emptiness, loss and return. Drawing on myths and fairy tales, stories of ancient remedies and witch's brews, Sweeney joins the personal with the archetypal, shaping heartfelt, vivid poems. She shows us how even almost unbearable loss carries within it new life.'' ---Ellen Bass''Perhaps the physical and metaphysical are most perfectly one in a woman's desire to have a child. Jennifer K. Sweeney's Little Spells makes a stunningly powerful lyric journey into the realm of this desire in poems that engage language, image, myth, medicine, fairy tale and potion as tickets to the depths. She is a poet wooed by the abstraction of transformation and she finds for it a local habitation in the figure of the egg: chicken, ostrich, loon, rotten and that most remarkable totem of all, the human egg as the source of us all. At the level of image, line and vision, this book resounds with 'the terrible artistry of so fierce a care.''' ---Alison Hawthorne Deming
About the Author LITTLE SPELLS is Jennifer K. Sweeney's third book of poetry. Her second book, How to Live on Bread and Music (Perugia Press Prize, 2009), won the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets and was nominated for the Poets' Prize. Her first collection, Salt Memory, won the Main Street Rag Poetry Award in 2006. Sweeney's poems have appeared in The Pushcart Prize Anthology, Poetry Daily, American Poetry Review, New American Writing, Pleiades, Verse Daily, and the Academy of American Poets "Poem-a-Day" series. After earning her MFA from Vermont College, she has served as visiting writer at Kalamazoo College and at multiple writing festivals and retreats. She teaches workshops and offers manuscript consultation in California where she lives with her husband, poet Chad Sweeney, and their sons, Liam and Forest.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Such a fantastic book. Sweeney has a way with words that ... By nathan Such a fantastic book. Sweeney has a way with words that I envy. She has grown to be one of my favourite authors. I heard about her via school, but I now read her work purely for my own personal leisure. I find her writing provokes my own writer's spirit and makes me remember why I have come to care for literature so dearly.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This great desire, at once potent and mythic By Rachel Rose Jennifer K. Sweeney's Little Spells is a collection bound by fierce yearning: the longing for a child to come to her. This great desire, at once potent and mythic, is set against all that cannot be controlled and must simply be borne, be witnessed, be accurately observed and mourned. Sweeney transforms this ache into incantations, unforgettable little spells--sometimes mysterious, sometimes plainspoken--that invoke the language of both the natural and the unseen world to witness, to lament, to call forth the reluctant beloved: "Make of my body a home, I was/an hourglass of salt,/a tarot of bone. Lay me down/under Perseids, let the stars/hold up the night." I am grateful for these poems.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A review of Little Spells By Karen Craigo Lots of poets have written about the liminal space between life and death—how consciousness, rooted in the body, becomes spirit. But few have addressed the other end, wherein spirit is first made flesh through pregnancy and birth.Jennifer K. Sweeney offers a corrective in Little Spells (Kalamazoo: New Issues Press, 2015), a gorgeous collection centered in the pain of trying to conceive.Maybe this topic has been largely ignored because it’s an experience rooted in the feminine. Although a couple tackles the problem of infertility together, it is the female body where the new flesh is to be housed and where the weight of the issue is measured. Perhaps we lump fertility together with the menstrual cycle—an even more pervasive reality for women, but one addressed mostly occasionally and obliquely, seldom head-on and at length.Although I have not struggled with fertility, I know many women who have, and they report that the treatment process can be painful, humiliating, and soul crushing. Surely such a harrowing and all-encompassing experience is worth poetic treatment. And Sweeney demonstrates in Little Spells that this territory can sustain an entire book—all ninety-five pages of one.This was a book that resisted abandonment. Something important was happening, and I couldn’t leave it until I saw it through to its fruition. Sweeney offers so many different views of her theme, from the very first poem, “Abandoning the Hives”:Wake up, the currents of bees have fledthis hour of seeddark imaginings in their week—unsweet feverless drone.Comb the hillside for sleepwalkersdrowsy on some chemical spool orbeg the swarm box to dance.This initial fourteen-line poem, ending with its haunting row of empty jars, prefigures the crown of sonnets, “Still Life With Egg,” that comprises the center of the book. The series offers myriad views of the egg: “ceramic … lined with oyster skin,” “maraca,” “first / thought,” or, in number twelve of the sequence,I held the cool weightup to the lightthis is an egg, tiny clockof its own making, the shapeof wonder serious on our faces.My favorite poem in the book is “Sea-change,” which offers the first clear indication that all of the speaker’s struggles have resolved in the realization of her desire:after the waiting years the leadenkeening oceanside for an answerfrom the original dark you emergedistinct one life perpetually not-therenot-to-comethen suddenly at work with long divisionsac of cells wewatched in the fluxout of via negativeyou eddy forthThis stunning poem ends with a promise to the sac of cells, named “littlebluefish” or “littlebigheart” by the poet: “I will not forget / the profound absence from which / you began.”I know this is just a book of poetry. No labwork was involved in its reading—there was no cool medical precision; that which is, by its nature, beautiful and private was not made sterile and public. But when I finally understood that the desire and the suffering and the cradling of that fragile egg had given way to new life, I celebrated. Little Spells let me feel it—and it let me share this particular joy. It’s a remarkable and important book in this way.
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