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"A veces pienso que la soñé demasiado, la soñé tanto que la hice. Casi todas nuestras madres son criaturas de nuestros sueños."
---Joaquín Sabines
"Mi madre, niña de mil años,
madre de mundo, huérfana de mí,
abnegada, feroz, obtusa, providente."
---Octavio Paz
"La madre, mártir del sentimiento
de ingratos hijos, la senda alfombra;
vive, y son ellos su pensamiento;
muere, y les deja su grata sombra.
---Salvador Díaz Mirón
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Jeff Holzimn
reviewed Cantos a la Madre on July 05, 2014
Cantos a la Madre
A great anthology of poems!
Kevin Young is a great poet, as I discovered when I read For the Confederate Dead a little while after getting this anthology. (Yet another book I need to do the review on soon!) As such, it is no surprise that in putting together this anthology of poems about and containing the spirit of Jazz, he finds only the best and the brightest.
However, as a poet, he's decided they're best grouped by theme and not by year. In fact, he cares so little about the when rather than the what that we don't even get a note at the end of the poems, which is a shame because I'd loved to have a better sense of context. That's the only disappointment here, though, as these poems are a perfect compliment to the medium they pay tribute to.
The sections follow a rough outline of jazz itself, starting with "Vamping--Early Poems", moving through various sections such as "horns" and "rythym", and including a few almost exclusively devoted to a player (Coltrane, Bird, Billie Holliday) and their style. Young's titles for the sections themselves form a type of poem, as it were, tying all the parts together.
Since there is a large variety of poets in this anthology, I won't try to pull quotes. However, there are selections from Langston Hughes, Carl Sandburg, Amiri Bakara--who does a great poetic rendition of Coltrane's jazz life, e.e. Cummings, Charles Simic, Young himself, and many others I don't know as well. There was only one poem that struck a bad chord with me, it's homophobic violence clashing with the cool. Hatred's anti-jazz, you see, at least to my way of thinking.
Most of this poetry is free verse, as befits the medium. It's also a bit blue at times, so those who don't like their language coarse may not be satisfied. But if you're a fan of experimental verse and a fan of jazz, this is definitely a good book for you! (Library, 03/07)
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