Bøger af Lynne Potts

Mame, Sol, and Dog Bark follows the unfolding lives of a 21st century couple shadowed by their faithful pooch. Also shadows, the city and bay are backdrops as the poems explore tensions created by the new century's prosperity, and its pervasive anxieties. Mame asks: Could the sea with its kind of seasoning be an answer? For what question? One labored day gives way to another. Finger the string hanging in the balloon tree and choose the same route; as always it leads round and round, one breath and then another of questionable texture, the sequence like string tree-tied to a postponed present.

Dispersed among some ten poems celebrating the nubiferous paintings of Arthur Dove (1880-1946)) are another forty (also nubiferous) poems by Lynne Potts. I believe this transcendent duplicity requires some prompting about Dove's pictures which are among the earliest abstract works painted in this country. Dove and his second wife Helen Torr lived on a river boat in eastern NY, where their aim was to discover the exact color and form or motif to represent the essence of the object painted. Hence Helen's countless questions ("How does one capture the soma of the sea? / Watch until transparency turns liquid topaz." And again: "Outside the boat window / the storm had cleared; he painted it pale yellow, / a serrated knife for lightning. She put it in his / accumulating pile, not far from her few." The immense satisfaction of Porthole View is the impossibility of uncoupling the licentious recreation of Dove & Torr from the learned originality of Lynne Potts. -Richard Howard With a luminous clarity Lynne Potts peers into the world of artist couple Arthur Dove and Helen Torr. Find in these beguiling poems an urgency and buoyancy about what presses upon the artistic spirit and process, and upon the fragile fabric of a relationship. -Nance Van Winckel

Craft-savvy and intelligent, Lynne Potts displays a deft lyrical hand in The Relentless Pronoun. Her ability to inject fresh language through beautiful imagery, as well as her natural ear for musicality, shows her appreciation for the subtlety of craft. Perfect rhythmic control reinforces her keen grasp on how two images put together in succession instantly creates meaning. Strings of concrete scenes tell a tale of the greater whole, as she ruminates upon images that seize, moments that claim, in the transformation of memory. Rich rural settings draw the reader into lush meditations on fish and water, creature and birds, nature and the ever dominant palette of blue. Atmosphere effortlessly paints a seamless dream, a complete and utter submersion into text. All the while ordinary objects are cast in new light, rendering even the "Green glazed diner vinyl counter top" beautiful or the ladder's "stretch to high barns / of hay scent, mouse hair, soft landings" as profound.

A Block in Time is a 200 year history of a Boston neighborhood as viewed from the vantage point of a single street, Holyoke.