Friday, 14 December 2012
Gail Dendy’s vivid and exhaustive sketch of life: a review of Closer Than That, by John Eppel
When I first read Gail Dendy’s poems I discerned something dance-like in their cadences, seldom continuous like the above examples, but sporadic, light-footed. After a few more readings, I discerned her technique: the strategic placement within prosaic, barely scannable phrases, of three-syllable feet. In “The Apprentice”, a re-telling of the creation story, she employs dactyls: “moistened the”; “felt how it”; “fashioned a”; “breath from my”; “this was the”; “called it a”; “sooner had”, and so on...Read more here
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Closer Than That,
Dye Hard Press,
Gail Dendy,
John Eppel,
Slipnet
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