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Remembering Thunder NewSouth Books Things collide and make a great noise in Remembering Thunder, the ninth collection of poetry by American master Andrew Glaze, author of the critically acclaimed anthology Someone Will Go On Owing (winner of the inaugural SEBA Book of the Year Award for Poetry, 1998). Part philippic, part ode to our humanness in a lyrical mode, Remembering Thunder is classic Glaze, only better. Now in his eighties, Glaze reports that he’s doing his best work yet. Certainly, he has never been more energetic or wise in trying to reconcile our foibles with his faith. Mystic with a love of mischief, gentle counselor, good friend, Doppelganger of our consciences, demi-god who denounces when we falter and fail . . . Glaze is Janus-like, startling in his ability to adopt many voices, but ever exhorting us to a single truth: the need for honesty and awareness in all things. Critic William Doreski calls Glaze “extraordinarily open-eyed, honest and tough.” Publishers Weekly notes how “without conceit or embarrassment, he purposefully inhabits the role of poet as bard and minor prophet.” Prophets can be noisy sometimes, as this one is. But to paraphrase the poet himself, there’s no mistaking who’s slamming the doors. It’s Andrew Glaze. Listen up!
Reviews “There are few poets today who have the sharp eye and fierce tongue of Andrew Glaze. His formal mastery, intellectual honesty, and linguistic clarity are most evident in Remembering Thunder. If you buy a single poetry book this year, let it be [this one].” “Language always wonderfully sprightly, but without any shallow trickiness. I enjoy Glaze’s preference for life in this dusty dimension. Thanks to him.” “With grace, good-humor and disarming clarity, the poems of Remembering Thunder demonstrate once again that the consolations of memory are not what the heart or the brain desires. Glaze is a wise poet who understands that, while it cannot recreate the lost world of the past, a poem can create a vital present out of the chaos of memory.” “What a treat! Andrew Glaze’s latest funny, quixotic, and very wise poetry! This new collection is a curtain-riser on Glaze’s unique dancing lines, and his tenacity, his ambition, even, to arrive at the whole truth.” “A poet who never presumes to know the truth but reaches out with naked honesty and wild intensity.” “He writes lean, finely tuned poems without obfuscation or pretentious abstraction.”
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