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The AK wants to tell a different truth―
a truth ungarbled that is so obvious
no one could possibly mistake its meaning.
If you look down the cyclops-eye of the barrel
what you'll see is a boy with trousers
rolled above his ankles.
You'll see a mouth of bone moving in syllables
that have the rapid-fire clarity
of a weapon that can fire 600 rounds a minute.
―from "Oracle"
Station Zed is the terminal outpost beyond which is the unknown. It is also the poet Tom Sleigh's finest work. In this latest collection, Sleigh brings to these poems his experiences as a journalist on tours of Lebanon, Somalia, Iraq, and Libya. But these are also dispatches from places of grief, history, and poetic traditions as varied as Scottish ballads and the journeys of Basho.
- Sales Rank: #986326 in Books
- Brand: Sleigh, Tom
- Published on: 2015-01-06
- Released on: 2015-01-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.99" h x .39" w x 5.99" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 96 pages
Review
“[Sleigh] seamlessly and imaginatively weaves together history, mythology, and autobiography to form a collection that feels personal and prophetic. . . . Sleigh never fails to produce beautiful lines. . . . Narrative and wandering, Sleigh's poems welcome readers ready to venture into the unknown.” ―Publishers Weekly
“I read plenty of great poetry this year . . . but my favorite was Tom Sleigh's Station Zed, a profound, sometimes uncomfortably incisive book. Sleigh's essay for Poetry Magazine on the WWI writers Wilfred Owen and David Jones is brilliant, and this book is the proof that he lives up to theoretical challenges he poses in that essay for anybody daring to write about conflict zones. Just as good are the non-war poems. I just finished it, but have been carrying it around with me because I keep needing to go back to reread poems.” ―Phil Klay, author of Redeployment
“Station Zed, Tom Sleigh's ninth and best book to date...is one of the dialectics that poetry needs now if it's to lay the ground for its future. Its vital presence in Sleigh's work will make his new book one of the necessary publications of 2015.” ―On the Seawall
About the Author
Tom Sleigh's books of poetry include Army Cats, winner of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Updike Award, and Space Walk, winner of the Kingsley Tufts Award. He is also the author of Interview with a Ghost. He teaches at Hunter College in New York.
Praise for Tom Sleigh
"Tom Sleigh's poetry is hard-earned and well founded. I greatly admire the way it refuses to cut emotional corners and yet achieves a sense of lyric absolution." ―Seamus Heaney
"Sleigh has been publishing formidable poetry for almost thirty years, and among American poets of his generation there is no one better." ―David Wojahn, Tikkun
"An indispensable contemporary American poet." ―The Boston Globe
"What delights me most is seeing a poet of [Sleigh's] accomplishments and his large and well-earned reputation . . . pushing into greatness." ―Philip Levine, Ploughshares
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Best book yet by one of our greatest living poets
By Christopher Robinson
Sleigh's latest is incredible. It's so rare to find a book of poems (or a book of any genre really) that deals with deadly serious subject matter and yet manages to be really funny! And often in such an understated way, as in the lines about the prostitute from "Let Thanks Be Given to the Raven as is its Due:"
"...And the raven
greeted the prostitute who had the contest with Messalina,
great wife of Caesar, and Messalina won:
twenty-five men in twenty-four hours, which might not sound
like all that many, barely more than one an hour,
but it isn't the number, is it?"
Sleigh is so adept at balancing between cynicism and honest sentiment. His poem "Twins" does this especially well, and the result is direct and crushing: "oh sure, / to sleep is good, to die is even better, / but the best is never to have been born." That "Oh sure," is crucial. It saves the final line from being overly dramatic. It puts the speaker, and hence the reader, in a place where death and dying are casually longed for. That's what's truly scary about the way Sleigh portrays his weighty subject matter (in this poem, his past heroin addiction, in other poems, terrorism, genocide)--those terrible things aren't as rare as we'd like to imagine, they're are as daily as diet coke. Lesser poets fall into cynicism or honest sentiment when facing the truly horrifying. Sleigh succeeds where they fail by choosing to flirt with the abyss--he is cynical and full of pathos at the same time. The subjects he's writing about matter in a very real way--but he's still able to joke about them.
The long poem "KM4" is one of the exemplars of this quality. It's huge and timeless, and I imagine it must have been a labor to write. The rhyme in the first section sets a tone, calling back to invocations of the muse. And the poem proceeds in a sonically taut fashion with lines like "The AK talks the talk of what guns talk-- // not rage or death or cliches of killing, / but specs of what it means to be fired off in the air." The poem is filled with such perfect and simply stated images ("putting your fingers / in the wounds of a blast wall at KM4 as if you were / doubting Thomas waiting for Christ to appear" or "The soldiers lie down on mats, their faces slacken, / sleep runs like a hand over their skinny bodies, / and a goat climbs into a huge cooking pot / and licks and licks the sides clean." ) That latter image is immediately juxtaposed with this one: "The journalist who doesn't sleep walks into a bullet." One of the problems with "poetry of witness" is that it is so often contaminated by bias in what it chooses to witness. Sleigh is democratizes what is witnessed and so escapes this peril. The goat is just as important to this poem as the journalist walking into the bullet.
"Homage to Vallejo" might be my favorite poem in the book, though it's hard to say because there are so many great poems. The first section just left me speechless. Every turn of phrase, every image, so fresh and exquisite "I want to write, but I've got a puma's brains." Or, "So come on, to hell with it, let's go eat weeds, / eat the flesh and fruit of our stupid / tears and moans, of our pickled melancholy souls." And that final image, "the slow flapping wing of a lottery ticket," is just perfectly emotionally pitched.
"Stairway" is my other contender for favorite poem. So felt, so terrifying, the way Sleigh meditates on love in the face of the oncoming abyss of aging and death. Made my heart swallow itself for a moment.
"Proof of Poetry," "Second Sight," the list goes on. One of the best books of poems I've read in years. Made me want to keep writing poetry myself. Mostly, the poems I come across in books and magazines make me hate myself and every vain useless person for obscuring the chaotic ever fascinating pulp-grain of paper with words too clever to be felt. This book did the opposite. Which is why I'll be reading and re-reading it for years to come.
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