Forks Over Knives by Gene Baur
Poetry. Jane Gregory's mystifying second collection, YEAH NO, begins with a Knock knock, inviting the reader into a realmwhere Everything is a pattern / of yesses and no. Within these pages we find Gregory constructing a multivalent world--ripe with struggle, prophecy, and, by the end, a resemblance of hope. Using her highly-tuned sensibility throughout, Gregory guides us through the anxieties of this journey by inventing new and enigmatic forms filled with sonic experimentation and polyphony. YEAH NO builds upon the singular vision found within her previous collection, MY ENEMIES, and continues her elegant and challenging address to poetry. At the beginning it feels almost awkward (as well as anguished). Written in poems that are accretions containing both language that's constantly questioned and a more subtle, subterranean lyricism: 'the bower made of agitation' seems to be the form, and the book seems to be about being agitated by different impulses. Suddenly, more than mid-way, everything comes together into a new tone, and what was hesitance. is a method. 'I am against achievement, ' Jane Gregory says in obvious and thrilling mastery of poetic form. She really takes over then. and the reader's pleasure is acute. This is a terrific book to go through.--Alice Notley To take the relentless work of sensing/making/relating/judging/desiring/suffering/trying ('What? // Yes. and little else') and wrest it via language into bombs of awful hope and gorgeous despair just is poetry's job, and in YEAH NO Jane Gregory makes it fully and spectacularly hers. 'Thank what is clear / for the grimness, ' she writes, 'what the future's retrojection bore a hole right through.' Gregory's taut and particular rigor is a contagion (read: corrective) that I dearly want to spread across the present tense. Take note of what happens to your heart--I mean the organ, 'tenderer. tenderer now'--as you read this mighty book.--Anna MoschovakisGene Baur is the president and cofounder of Farm Sanctuary, the nation's premier farm animal protection organization, which campaigns for the humane treatment of farm animals, a return to agriculture's roots, and an end to animal suffering for our consumption. His group has rescued sick, abandoned, and abused animals from farms, stockyards, and slaughterhouses across the country since 1986, not only helping to enact innovative laws and policies to help prevent sick and diseased animals from ending up on our menus but also helping to enact breakthrough laws and policies to help prevent sick and diseased animals from ending up on our menus. On ranches in New York and California, Baur and his colleagues provide a safe haven and a healthy existence for animals in desperate need of help. Please go to www.farmsanctuary.org to learn more about Farm Sanctuary.
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| EAN | 0829567076026 |
| Title | Forks Over Knives |
| Format | Colour DVD-Video Widescreen NTSC |
| Region Code | 1 |
| Running time | 96 minutes |
| Studio | Virgil Films and Entertainment |
| Audience Rating | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Note | Unavailable |
| Writer | Lee Fulkerson |
| Director | Lee Fulkerson |