Böcker av Mike Carson

Dans un langage humoristique, satirique et initiatique, Avance, hymne à la résilience, relate l¿histoire du petit Achille. Torturé psychologiquement et physiquement par ses parents, il découvre que sa vie ne sera pas un long fleuve tranquille¿ Néanmoins, l¿amour prendra un sens profond lors de sa rencontre avec sa douce compagne. Des personnages hauts en couleur lui permettront de grandir et de s¿affirmer tout au long de son parcours chaotique.Aura-t-il la révélation du sens de sa vie ?

Meeting a local woman at a service project in Appalachia, the narrator of Mike Carson's poem "Muse" hears from her "Those words, iron twang of loss," that "cut soft ideas of beauty out." Carson's lean, spare collection The Keeper's Voice unflinchingly engages those hard ideas of beauty, of goodness.Direct and often colloquial in their language and traditional in their forms -- blank verse, quatrains, sonnets -- the poems' voices arise from a wide range of viewpoints and situations: from an altar boy thawing a frozen gate lock while early Mass goes on without him, to a returning Vietnam veteran who takes up bull riding; from a boy calling cows in the pre-dawn dark, to a narrator providing instructions for teaching crows to talk; from a new cop, a Christian who must shoot to kill in a ghetto bar, to a family discovering the ashes of a stillborn child among a dead sister's belongings. One poem interweaves locker room slogans with phrases from the Requiem Mass for a friend who died playing football; another centers around a single shout from a wife to her husband threatened by an untethered bull.Refreshingly straightforward, yet suffused with weight, maturity, and passion, The Keeper's Voice projects a wise and uncompromising vision.