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Maxims from My Mother's Milk / Hymns to Him: A Dialogue (hardcover)

Douglas Messerli

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Through the two matched sequences of poems this, his fourth book of poetry, Messerli probes the dialogue between male and female, wife and husband, mother and father, the masculine and feminine pysches of his own being.

The poetic which results (and for Messerli a poetics is a way of thinking and living, not simply a method of expressing emotions and ideas through words) is less a resolution than a clashing, clanging, lyrical, jarring, meditational, discordant, corny, witty integration of the self. The self as it should be, argues this poet, is not one but a simultaneous celebration of the teeming many—a sort of Ellis Island of the head and heart.