- Paperback: 97 pages
- Publisher: CavanKerry Press (Jan 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0970718667
- ISBN-13: 978-0970718662
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm
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Tremendous Falls, 8 April 2003
By Karen Smith - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Origins of Tragedy & Other Poems (Paperback)
It seems that tragedy according to Rosen, begins with unbelievable falls from happiness. This poetry talks to the sad, to the once happy, but somehow fumbling we can laugh at how unfair life seems to be, because it really seems unbelievable that we could once be happy and then so sad.The third poem in the book really touched my heart, without a question the psychological trauma and embarassament of a mother lying to a child and what would happen if 60 years later they had met, wow.
And then later in the collection he talks about the confusion of romance, the shock of kissing and the sense of not feeling and then the primal nakedness that changes everything.
The read is painful, but someone makes me feel better, I am not alone, I am not the only one.
And the
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"Not For Skimmers", 11 April 2003
By Robert B. Berner - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Origins of Tragedy & Other Poems (Paperback)
Ken Rosen's collection of poems, The Origins Of Tragedy, is not a book for the skimmer of pages, not a volume for those incapable of or unwilling to keep the man and the work distinct and discrete. Rosen has been accused of chest-thumping egoism, a charge that will stand only if one skims the poems and assumes that the poet himself is indeed the speaker in every instance. This is an error only those who flunked Intro. to Poetry can make.Origins refuses to ignore the cruel and the vicious in human history at the same time that it celebrates the basics--family, food, sex, death--with a whimsy that only seems cynical and a sense of humor worthy of a Whitmanesque yawp.
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Looks at the transient nature of life, 18 July 2003
By Midwest Book Review - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Origins of Tragedy & Other Poems (Paperback)
The Origins Of Tragedy & Other Poems is a collection of free-verse poetry by Kenneth Rosen that looks at the transient nature of life with an unassuming riposte against the struggles, hardships, and minor victories that everyone must face. "A spark. Did all lamps need to be lit? Or just / Those doused by raindrops or errant drafts? / They seemed sad, these doomed men who knew / How to give fog its soft perfume, and the facts / Of our life their necessary, tender, but fatal glow."
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