The Early Death of Men Clint Margrave Books
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Poetry. In his dark and often humorous debut, THE EARLY DEATH OF MEN, Clint Margrave gives us poems that provide no railings for the honest, frank edge on which they stand, poems that peek through telescopes and key holes in equal astonishment, devour words like stars devour planets, or lovers one another. Written in a language as accessible and sturdy as our bones, THE EARLY DEATH OF MEN is humane, deliberate, and witty. An impactful, original, and fierce collection that despite its name promises to remain vital long after you put it down.
"It seems at least a decade since I wrote a brief preface for an early chapbook of Clint Margrave's poems, announcing the intelligence, talent, erudition, worldly experience, and confident voice which augured such a bright literary future. Still, the scope, variety, maturity, and syntactical artistry of this monumental compilation caught me by surprise. With these poems he takes his place among the elite verbal practitioners of his generation. To the wit he has always displayed, he has added the wisdom and complexities of the self-reflective life. This work well deserves the imprimatur of NYQ's esteemed and indefatigable editor/publisher, Raymond Hammond. When a writer has cleared such high hurdles of our profession, the self-assurance achieved unlocks the remaining chambers of his gift. The next time a blurb is called for, I suspect it will be I who is petitioning him for it. And it had damn well better be a glowing one!"—Gerald Locklin
The Early Death of Men Clint Margrave Books
Reading The Early Death of Men was, to say the last, a very powerful experience--not just because of the strength of the poems, individually and collectively, but because of what I felt to be the nature of the true phenomenon overlying that which was transpiring as I read. I could see the influence of contemporary poets in various areas--Gerald Locklin in the humorously hypothetical and ekphrastic poems; I felt that "Varnish" in particular recalled Ray Zepeda. But the poems also immediately transcended with an often surprising virtuosity whatever influence(s) they invoked. Here, I realized, influence was not a weight--it was a starting point, a platform upon which each individual piece launched off into the brilliantly complex universe of a singular creativity. For what I was really experiencing, beyond just reading a contemporary collection of poetry, was the elusively rare, epiphanic dawning of the realization that one is contending with a voice that has coped with and aesthetically contextualized all of the formative idiosyncrasies characterizing its respective trajectory. I know (and am included in) a vast number of individuals who have written, published or intend to publish books--what separates us from one another? I think the answer lies chiefly in the unsavory (but nevertheless inevitable) reality that most of us will never learn to write in our own voices. Margrave has written a great collection of poems, but, more amazing than that--he has his own voice. And it is powerfully resonant. This is easily one of the most unique collections of poetry to have come out in quite some time. I have seen the adjective "dark" thrown around more than once in describing TEDOM, and I agree that it is appropriate--but what a unique darkness this is! It is dark without being bitter, dark without being angry--it is the darkness of somber introspection, of wry humor, of the most earnest intellectual pain--a darkness often sought after, but rarely achieved.Product details
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The Early Death of Men Clint Margrave Books Reviews
Great works of poetry and literature should make you think and make you see things in new ways. This collection does that. Clint Margrave sees the same things we all see everyday in our lives, but he sees them with fresh eyes and a unique perspective. This is the kind of book that belongs on the bookshelf of everyone who loves poetry, loves life, and wants to keep learning from it and being challenged by it.
With topics ranging from mortality to science to family to health, Margrave has developed a very sneaky way of infiltrating your mind with his ideas. Once he appeals to your sense of logic and balance, using razor-perfect selections of words and phrases, he will deliver a sucker punch to your psyche when least expected. A blow that can resonate for days.
Take, for example, "Time Line" -- a clever, wistful, and unassuming poem about the final days of the "At the tone the time will be..." phone number. Just when you're settled in, warm and comfy with humor and anecdote, the poem takes a hairpin turn at its close
"Hand me the phone," my father would say,
whenever he wanted to set his watch,
long before his own plug got pulled
and there wasn't any number to reach him.
Long before I ever dreamed
that time could end.
Margrave's poems often seem to speak to our minds, but somehow, they end up folding themselves into your heart. This is where they belong. Buy this book, and treasure it.
"The Early Death of Men" is a remarkable book especially when you consider how young the poet is. He addresses the weighty subjects of poetry life, death, love, death of love in conversational language, language that human beings actually use when speaking with one another. His poem "Room" is in my personal anthology of favorite poems. I can't help thinking of W.B. Yeats here"We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry." Clint Margrave makes poetry.
Was Beautifully written. Could relate to so many poems. Author expresses brilliantly what so many of us feel but will not say.
Clint Margrave, modern poet, language lover... love his style, metaphors, description. Margrave is not to be missed. He encourages one to dip and dive into his poems. Take the dive!
Reading The Early Death of Men was, to say the last, a very powerful experience--not just because of the strength of the poems, individually and collectively, but because of what I felt to be the nature of the true phenomenon overlying that which was transpiring as I read. I could see the influence of contemporary poets in various areas--Gerald Locklin in the humorously hypothetical and ekphrastic poems; I felt that "Varnish" in particular recalled Ray Zepeda. But the poems also immediately transcended with an often surprising virtuosity whatever influence(s) they invoked. Here, I realized, influence was not a weight--it was a starting point, a platform upon which each individual piece launched off into the brilliantly complex universe of a singular creativity. For what I was really experiencing, beyond just reading a contemporary collection of poetry, was the elusively rare, epiphanic dawning of the realization that one is contending with a voice that has coped with and aesthetically contextualized all of the formative idiosyncrasies characterizing its respective trajectory. I know (and am included in) a vast number of individuals who have written, published or intend to publish books--what separates us from one another? I think the answer lies chiefly in the unsavory (but nevertheless inevitable) reality that most of us will never learn to write in our own voices. Margrave has written a great collection of poems, but, more amazing than that--he has his own voice. And it is powerfully resonant. This is easily one of the most unique collections of poetry to have come out in quite some time. I have seen the adjective "dark" thrown around more than once in describing TEDOM, and I agree that it is appropriate--but what a unique darkness this is! It is dark without being bitter, dark without being angry--it is the darkness of somber introspection, of wry humor, of the most earnest intellectual pain--a darkness often sought after, but rarely achieved.
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