{"id":727,"date":"2009-03-18T03:42:20","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/?p=727"},"modified":"2009-03-18T03:42:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T11:42:20","slug":"simon-pettets-hearth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pierrejoris.com\/blog\/simon-pettets-hearth\/","title":{"rendered":"Simon Pettet's Hearth"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOne of my favorite reads for 2009 so far has been Simon Pettet\u2019s Hearth<\/span> (Talisman House, 2008). What a pleasure to finally have a solid collection that represents something close to a Collected Poems! Pettet is a careful, meticulous poet, wistful and wise \u2014 someone who knows that a word well-placed can be worth a thousand pictures. A democratic poet too in that all, high or low culture, is grist to his mill \u2014 you can meet a Bloomingdale pullover right after an encounter with Li Po, Lorca hangs with Cro Magnon man, Pliny with a frog (well, not on the same page & not in the same poem, but in the same book), and Rabindranagh Tagore is separated by one one word (\u201clike\u201d) from Shirley MacLaine, while a bird turns out to be a frog (unbeknownst by the author). As Tom Raworth says on the back-cover: \u201c\u2018Heart\u2019 and \u2018Earth,\u2019 the obvious scenery as Simon\u2019s I-liner trips us through the decades, sometimes blind-embossing a snapshot, sometimes looking at himself observing it, sometimes spattering it with apposite allusion. Take the ride and enjoy the scene.\u201d Here\u2019s a little poetics gem:<\/p>\n

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MY METHODOLOGY<\/p>\n

I accrue hordes<\/p>\n

and then<\/p>\n

winnow away,<\/p>\n

It is a thankless task,<\/p>\n

tho\u2019 not without<\/p>\n

occult comfort.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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