Her Knees Pulled In Elizabeth Jacobson Books
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Poetry. "Poets are not generally reputed to be tough-minded persons, yet they often are―as the poems of Elizabeth Jacobson demonstrate again and again. At once stoical and lush, full of terse, piercing, mindful observations of daily life, these poems look telegraphic on the page, but they are intricate and thoughtful and wild, like the winding skeleton of a 'A lyre snake / its back of petroglyphs/ designed to cloak / his detective life / of eating things still alive.'
"HER KNEES PULLED IN is a highly skilled, no-bullshit, sexual and creaturely poetry, accounting for the earthly life of a woman. If I were going to give a friend any book of poems as representative of the inner life of New Mexico, and of what it feels like to be a western woman, it would be this one."―Tony Hoagland
"This is a mysterious, terrific book of poetry. Intimate, deep-pulling, solitary, aware. Elizabeth Jacobson is doing exciting work."―Natalie Goldberg
Her Knees Pulled In Elizabeth Jacobson Books
... is diametrically opposed to many a male aspiration. Nonetheless, as I recently wrote in my review of Thrall: Poems, I have been trying to remediate at least one other character flaw by reading more poetry. Thus, when Elizabeth Jacobson drove down from her home in nearby Santa Fe to give a poetry reading in an independent Albuquerque bookstore, I decided to attend. No surprise, I suppose, that attendance was somewhat south of the crowd that gathers for a local Triple A baseball game. A discourse on correcting national character flaws, however, as they used to say in college, and probably still do, is beyond the scope of this review.For poetry to resonate with me I have to eschew the "theory" and the "iambic pentameter," and such, and concentrate on two qualities: the conciseness and the validity of thought, and the yet still unique ways that words can be placed together to convey that thought. On both counts, in both Jacobson's reading, and in this volume, which I subsequently purchased, she scored "five's." I must have the requisite 15 or so books of photography on New Mexico. Until I purchased this volume, I had no books of poetry that describe the wonderful landscape that we fortunately inhabit and some others simply desire to visit. I've been walking past cholla for almost ten years now, saw their blooms, but never really did see them, since I never thought to describe their color: "fuchsia." (Or, maybe that is because I don't actually live in Santa Fe!) Are delphinium thirsty all day? All this area was once on the ocean floor, as witness the fossils, and so Jacobson appropriately connects arame, a form of seaweed with the ever familiar apache plume, how a juniper root can look like an eel, and how the color of salmon rock can resemble a coral reef. Less pleasantly, but for sure, there is the gray pointillism of the sky during a forest fire. Seeing nature anew.
There is the natural world around us, and the natural world that we are, and Jacobson describes both. Kokopelli, with his humpback, playing his flute is a familiar sight in New Mexico, a symbol for desire and want, as the author says. Jacobson's eroticism has both the subtlety of grazing fingertips, and the forthrightness of realizing that knees pulled in might not thwart those aforementioned aspirations, but actually complement them, if one also realizes where the feet are placed. The placement of the knees is a theme woven into several of her poems, for example, "...her knees open to the possibilities of never closing again." And the inside of an orange melon is yet another metaphor for the heartland of those aspirations.
Read more poetry, and read it with a Land of Enchantment setting, to complement all the artists who capture the beauty with pixels. 5-stars.
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Her Knees Pulled In Elizabeth Jacobson Books Reviews
With my own knees pulled in and a cup of tea, I had intended to read a few pages of poetry to end my day....
I absolutely could not put this book down. It has an intimately wise momentum that I long for in poetry.
Elizabeth's voice is honestly EXQUISITE...dreamy and sobering!
(I've read it five times)
Reading these poems gives the reader a clear insight into a specific time and place - the vastness and unique spirituality of rural New Mexico. Elizabeth Jacobson's poems are sensual, mysterious, and far reaching into the inner workings of a woman and the natural world which holds her. A homage to our planet, and to New Mexico, Her Knees Pulled In takes the reader on an unmatched poetic journey.
... is diametrically opposed to many a male aspiration. Nonetheless, as I recently wrote in my review of Thrall Poems, I have been trying to remediate at least one other character flaw by reading more poetry. Thus, when Elizabeth Jacobson drove down from her home in nearby Santa Fe to give a poetry reading in an independent Albuquerque bookstore, I decided to attend. No surprise, I suppose, that attendance was somewhat south of the crowd that gathers for a local Triple A baseball game. A discourse on correcting national character flaws, however, as they used to say in college, and probably still do, is beyond the scope of this review.
For poetry to resonate with me I have to eschew the "theory" and the "iambic pentameter," and such, and concentrate on two qualities the conciseness and the validity of thought, and the yet still unique ways that words can be placed together to convey that thought. On both counts, in both Jacobson's reading, and in this volume, which I subsequently purchased, she scored "five's." I must have the requisite 15 or so books of photography on New Mexico. Until I purchased this volume, I had no books of poetry that describe the wonderful landscape that we fortunately inhabit and some others simply desire to visit. I've been walking past cholla for almost ten years now, saw their blooms, but never really did see them, since I never thought to describe their color "fuchsia." (Or, maybe that is because I don't actually live in Santa Fe!) Are delphinium thirsty all day? All this area was once on the ocean floor, as witness the fossils, and so Jacobson appropriately connects arame, a form of seaweed with the ever familiar apache plume, how a juniper root can look like an eel, and how the color of salmon rock can resemble a coral reef. Less pleasantly, but for sure, there is the gray pointillism of the sky during a forest fire. Seeing nature anew.
There is the natural world around us, and the natural world that we are, and Jacobson describes both. Kokopelli, with his humpback, playing his flute is a familiar sight in New Mexico, a symbol for desire and want, as the author says. Jacobson's eroticism has both the subtlety of grazing fingertips, and the forthrightness of realizing that knees pulled in might not thwart those aforementioned aspirations, but actually complement them, if one also realizes where the feet are placed. The placement of the knees is a theme woven into several of her poems, for example, "...her knees open to the possibilities of never closing again." And the inside of an orange melon is yet another metaphor for the heartland of those aspirations.
Read more poetry, and read it with a Land of Enchantment setting, to complement all the artists who capture the beauty with pixels. 5-stars.
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