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#44 "The Temptation of Saint
Augustine" by Tom Andrews
Tom Andrews is a fresh voice. In reading him, nearly all other contemporary poets seem to become a part of the large school of the similar, or to be cloyingly technical, or subtlely ideological, when they are not manifestly so. For instance, no one seems to have told Andrews that religion--or rather religious spirituality--is frowned upon, and irony has become king. Andrews often uses the word "Lord" as freely as many contemporary poets use the word "I". In the poems in the section titled "The Temptation
of Saint Augustine," he imaginatively explores Augustine's emotions, dilemmas, and resolutions in the course of the saint's multifaceted relationship with his Lord. These--as well as other--poems have a sense of nostalgia that is
like a perspective on such religiousness which can these days only be imagined, not really lived. But Andrews is not circumscribed--limited--by nostalgia; nor is he completely lost in his spiritual bent. The subjects and imagery of the
poems of the section "25 Short Films About Poetry" show an equal knowledge of the nature and potential of the distinctly modern, postmodern art form of film. The two already-mentioned sections of uncollected poems are joined by the previously-published collections of "The Brother's Country" and "The Hemophiliac's Motorcycle." Andrews died at about 30 in 2001.
taken from SMALL PRESS BOOK REVIEW - APRIL 2003
by henryberry@[EMAIL PROTECTED] (HenryBerry)
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