Rooms is lyrical and meditative, painterly, erotic, and philosophical. The book is thematically and structurally a unity, but a unity of many parts, one and multiple. Rooms, many-chambered, purposeful and highly stylized yet light, light and airy as a beehive. Rooms plays like late 20th century blues-inflected jazz. There are multiple melodies, linked through motifs and memory: recurrent variations on several themes-childhood, life and death, love, memory, and duration.
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[A yellowed photograph and you let me into your childhood]***
(Guernica Editions 1 September 2017, copy provided by the publisher via NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I really enjoyed this collection of poetry, my first by Louise Dupré.
This is a work in translation. I would never have known the poems had originally been written in any other language than English which shows the skill of the translator.
The poems are vivid, powerful and intense at times. Dupré knows exactly what she wants to convey and does so in the clearest of terms, no waffling or pretty language to be found, just the perfect words in the right order.
I would recommend this poetry collection and would love to read more by Dupré.
