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The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman (review)

The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman (review) familiar territory with this new col- lection. Set in Sri Lanka and the Far assurance of a memorable Imagist work: "In the half-dark cabin of Air East, the poems are ornamented (at times too ostentatiously) with parasols and palanquins, monsoons and dagobas. Figurative language supplements the exotic effect, presenting the reader with roots "like fingers of a blind monk." So, too, does the Lanka Flight 5 /the seventy-year-old lady next to me begins to comb /her long white hair, then braids it in the faint light." (BF) The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman abundance of sensory details. When Ondaatje describes "the mid-rib of a coconut palm" or "the brush of sandalwood along the collarbone," he displays a natural strength his admirers will recognize. Several of by Bruce Robinson Overlook Press, 1999, 278 pp., $24.95 world of indifferent, cruel or absent adults is a convention of literature: The precocious child alone in a the poems though, particularly the four longer ones, rely too heavily on these "safari" details. The resulting stylish glitter fails to hide their lack of form. Cinderella, Alice, Pip and Maurice Sendak's Max come to mind. In Thomas Penman we have a new child Reading these http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png The Missouri Review University of Missouri

The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman (review)

Johnson, Willoughby.
The Missouri Review , Volume 22 (2) – Oct 5, 1999
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familiar territory with this new col- lection. Set in Sri Lanka and the Far assurance of a memorable Imagist work: "In the half-dark cabin of Air East, the poems are ornamented (at times too ostentatiously) with parasols and palanquins, monsoons and dagobas. Figurative language supplements the exotic effect, presenting the reader with roots "like fingers of a blind monk." So, too, does the Lanka Flight 5 /the seventy-year-old lady next to me begins to comb /her long white hair, then braids it in the faint light." (BF) The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman abundance of sensory details. When Ondaatje describes "the mid-rib of a coconut palm" or "the brush of sandalwood along the collarbone," he displays a natural strength his admirers will recognize. Several of by Bruce Robinson Overlook Press, 1999, 278 pp., $24.95 world of indifferent, cruel or absent adults is a convention of literature: The precocious child alone in a the poems though, particularly the four longer ones, rely too heavily on these "safari" details. The resulting stylish glitter fails to hide their lack of form. Cinderella, Alice, Pip and Maurice Sendak's Max come to mind. In Thomas Penman we have a new child Reading these

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Published: Oct 5, 1999

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