Raegan Butcher
Paperback | Pages: 335 pages Rating: 4.24 | 70 Users | 17 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Rusty String Quartet |
| ISBN: | 0970910150 (ISBN13: 9780970910158) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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I wrote this book. Some of it I wrote while I was in prison. Some of it I wrote while I was "free". To tell the truth, it is getting harder to tell the difference between the two anymore. Birth, school, work, death.The only thing that changes is the scenery.My poems work best on the page,I believe, and taken as a whole. If you lift them at random from the book--out of context--so to speak--you will get a much different feeling than if you read it like a novel. But my control over such things ended long ago. Just a tip for maximum enjoyment.
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| Title | : | Rusty String Quartet |
| Author | : | Raegan Butcher |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 335 pages |
| Published | : | August 1st 2005 by Crimethinc (first published June 15th 2005) |
| Categories | : | Poetry |
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Ratings: 4.24 From 70 Users | 17 ReviewsWeigh Up Based On Books Rusty String Quartet
I loved this follow up to Stone Hotel!This hefty book of poetry took me through an array of emotions. Even as a young woman, I felt I could relate to most of the content here. Raegan catches the deep despair and purposelessness many of us feel, making comments on what "freedom" means, both inside and outside prison. The book contains glimpses into new, fleeting and failed relationships, the drudgery of a typical working life, and although disjointed, the end offers autobiographical ramblings andI wrote this book. Some of it I wrote while I was in prison. Some of it I wrote while I was "free". To tell the truth, it is getting harder to tell the difference between the two anymore. Birth, school, work, death.The only thing that changes is the scenery.My poems work best on the page,I believe, and taken as a whole. If you lift them at random from the book--out of context--so to speak--you will get a much different feeling than if you read it like a novel. But my control over such things
More good stuff, if a bit uneven.Few books have the concise narrative drive of Stone Hotel. This one is more broad and sweeping, encompassing more years of the author's life. Most of the poems are very short.
It took me too long to acquire this book. This is everything I'd hoped for in a successor to Stone Hotel. The writing is as sharp as ever, and the flow of these poems from front cover to back is done extremely well. There are poems about leaving prison and adapting, poems about women, poems about longing for past relationships, missed time, loneliness, and lastly a few poems that feel a bit disjointed from the rest, but read like an epilogue. An excellent volume of work, I look forward to more.
Everything everyone has been saying about Butcher's writing is true. I've yet to see a negative review about any of his works. I was amazed at how well he can express his point, and he does it so well with so few words. His writing is gritty, raw, straightforward and has an ongoing undertone of sadness. Reading through some of those poems, I know they must have been hard to write. He talks about his childhood, a love he had, (further explaining why he went to prison in the first place), and
This was an intense collection of poetry; this time its main focus is trying to integrate with society having served a long prison sentence (there is a fantastic poem actually explaining how Butcher ended up in prison). Butcher isn't afraid to wear his heart on his sleeve and frequently writes about suicidal urges and his own isolation (in War with Everything he writes: "it's a hostile universe, cold and implacable, malignant, inscrutable"). However, there are poems which balance this out which
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