 Landscape with Silos ---National Poetry Series Finalist and Winner of the 2005 XJ Kennedy Poetry Prize.  Living by the Children's Cemetery -- Edward Hirsch's choice for the 2002 ByLine Press Competition. |
LINKS TO REVIEWS AND OTHER GOOD THINGS..SOME NEWER POEMS
Click on the link above to read some poems that are not in either book. I change these every week or so. LANDSCAPE WITH SILOS
Click on the Title for sample poems. "Deb Bogen writes poetry that is naked and necessary, unadorned and political, intelligent and generous. The book brims with intelligence. And reality." --Carol Frost "Bogen’s poems have a kind of unpretentious authority, sometimes ruefully realistic, sometimes quietly mysterious; the whole of Landscape with Silos goes to make something stronger and greater than its parts."--Jean Valentine "Here are poems of a lively intelligence, agile, wounded, and wise... quite simply a marvelous book."--Betty Adcock This is George Klawitter’s review of Landscape With Silos Bogen, Deborah, Landscape With Silos, Huntsville: Texas Review Press, 2006, 71 pages, $12.95 paperwork, ISBNB 1-881515-93-1 After publishing widely in poetry journals (e.g., Field, Shenandoah, The Indiana Review), Deborah Bogen won the 2002 ByLine Press Chapbook competition judged by Edward Hirsch, and her presents volume, Landscape with Silos, won the X.J.. Kennedy Poetry Prize in 2005. This collection of forty-seven poems, divided into four sections, represents her strongest work to date. She has gained fame across the country for poems that speak to common life and on occasion address our political climate. In her title poem, “Landscape with Silos” Bogen works subtle magic with vivid language. After brushing in down-home images for this North Dakota piece – “the palsied ghosts of cloud-stained women…a deep freeze filled with molasses cookies” she introduces government men and their underground missile silos: “they didn’t scare us, those missiles,/ For me, the heart of the book is the second clutch of poems, titled “The Poem Ventures Out.” It is Bogen’s “ars poetica” by which she lets poetry become personified, sticking its nose in various venues. From the eleven poems, we learn that poetry is essential to the human spirit and can rub us into realities we never dreamed would be susceptible to insights on life, love and death. Ultimately, Bogen confides “Relax, the poems told me,/ Bogen’s poems are significant and will find a permanent spot in twenty-first century American poetry. If you buy only one book of poetry this month, Landscape with Silos, is the one for this month. George Klawitter St. Edward’s University ISBN: 1-881515-93-1 LIVING BY THE CHILDREN'S CEMETERY
Click on the Title for sample poems. In choosing Living by the Children’s Cemetery as the 2002 ByLine Competition winner, esteemed poet and critic, Edward Hirsch, said "Living by the Children’s Cemetery provides a profound answer to the poet’s own call for "something sinister, something fragile, something Bessie Smith/ could sing." |
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