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The skillful, beguiling poems in Trumpeter are knockouts, delivered by the sharp right hook of Savard’s imagination. She is a heavyweight, who always leaves the ring of her own words undefeated and untouched by the glancing blows of lesser poets. In the poems “The Fall,” “The Descent of Fire,” “A Grandmother Acquiring the Bright Light,” “The Chase,” “An Immodest Thirst,” and “The Voyeur,” again and again she breaks the skins of ordinary lives to expose the magical words that are flourishing inside them.
In Jeannine Savard’s wonderful new collection, Trumpeter, there is a marvelous breathless hunger for the world, its people, and its riches. These poems unveil the confluence and simultaneity of experience, those intersections of dream and possibility with the material possibilities of our lives. As her delicate lyrical meditations turn quietly both metaphysical and speculative, Jeannine Savard offers us a world made luminous by daily ceremony and spiritual congruence. Long after this book has been closed, the call of its poems remain clarion.
Savard's poems rely not only on unusual dramatic situations but also on defamiliarization to yield an evocative combination of beauty and strangeness. . . . Violent images, exotic color motifs, and haunting rhythms are among Savard's more effective techniques. . . . Savard's color motifs imply an Apollonian splendor. . . . Savard's trochees nudge and rock.
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November 9, 2010
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