The Angel Rebecca Anne Banks Books
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A work of quiet genius. The Angel is poetry, a love affair dialectic that holds perfect peace inside the background of a haunted postapocalypse city, the decaying infrastructure and gray stone saved by images of angels, sunlight, forest, rain, and sky. The series of poems takes the reader on the journey of the Oracle, a dialogue of the sacred and the profane. Inspired by the muse, the archangel Gabriel and the angel statue The Eye by David Altmejd, the book includes a photo installation of the statue by Victor Tangermann, the photographs riveting, the statue an artistic marvel. The poet is in dialogue with a fallen angel, possibly an archangel, who as he travels the apocalypse becomes redeemed (whether the love affair is redeemed remains in question, possibly a testament to the tumultuous times). The Machine Age passing into the New Age of Imagine Peace through the magic of the Internet and the rediscovery of the tenets of the Holy Spirit, The Angel is the rediscovery of love itself.
The Angel Rebecca Anne Banks Books
The Angel, by Rebecca Banks, is a book length lyrical poem entwined with photographic images of The Eye, a sculpture by David Altmejd, commissioned by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. This sculpture is part Michelangelo's David, part fallen angel. Imagine the statue of a man, the left arm mechanical, the head a tangle of hands, two wings (neither apparently in working condition) and torso a blank rectangular hole. In the cover image, this hole is filled with the color of muted blue sky. The dozen images scattered throughout the book are from various angles, suggesting a different view of the angel, according to the position of the lens. In its approach, the book is reminiscent of "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," by Wallace Stevens.The beginning of the poem presents the Angel as messenger, The Angel as gateway to divine wisdom: "The Spirit / whispers to the Angel / the secrets of the world / if you listen closely / he will whisper them to you." The poem then erupts into invocation: "Angel of harkness . . . o' well loved angel . . . . fly us anywhere, / somewhere / even here, / heaven is blue." The color blue occurs throughout the poem: "angel bluesky"; "in the sky / the quiet of blue"; "blue o' sweet blue"; "somewhere blue / you dance with the sky"; "I could imagine blue"; "to drink the blue"; "blue sky cathedral"; "blue / as the sky." Understandably, the sky is a recurring image, as are windows.
This is not your typical angel, for this angel conveys "secrets of the world," and the invocation is to "fly us anywhere . . . even here." This is some "street angel" who "sits, so beautiful by the road." "Some angel on his knees." This angel has feet, as well, and walks. This is the angel "by the battlefield." The angel, who, perhaps, needs a sense of redemption himself. I'm not exactly sure whether the angel is truly the messenger of God, or a messenger in search of redemption himself; and, this is what makes this book length lyric so interesting. The poem ends: "The long road / and the conversation / of a lover, / going home." I like to think, at the end of the poem, that this angel is made whole, that the rectangular hole in the center of his chest is filled in (even with blue sky) and that he is no longer on his knees, in the street, a "beggar," fashioned" from "the gut strings" of a "guitar." I like to think that it is the poet who has become angel.
In addition to recurring images, repetition and assonance also occur in the poem. Sound effects seem not contrived, but natural. This is poetry that is not striving to be poetry. It simply is. Overall, a stunning book of image and text.
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The Angel Rebecca Anne Banks Books Reviews
The Angel, by Rebecca Banks, is a book length lyrical poem entwined with photographic images of The Eye, a sculpture by David Altmejd, commissioned by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. This sculpture is part Michelangelo's David, part fallen angel. Imagine the statue of a man, the left arm mechanical, the head a tangle of hands, two wings (neither apparently in working condition) and torso a blank rectangular hole. In the cover image, this hole is filled with the color of muted blue sky. The dozen images scattered throughout the book are from various angles, suggesting a different view of the angel, according to the position of the lens. In its approach, the book is reminiscent of "13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," by Wallace Stevens.
The beginning of the poem presents the Angel as messenger, The Angel as gateway to divine wisdom "The Spirit / whispers to the Angel / the secrets of the world / if you listen closely / he will whisper them to you." The poem then erupts into invocation "Angel of harkness . . . o' well loved angel . . . . fly us anywhere, / somewhere / even here, / heaven is blue." The color blue occurs throughout the poem "angel bluesky"; "in the sky / the quiet of blue"; "blue o' sweet blue"; "somewhere blue / you dance with the sky"; "I could imagine blue"; "to drink the blue"; "blue sky cathedral"; "blue / as the sky." Understandably, the sky is a recurring image, as are windows.
This is not your typical angel, for this angel conveys "secrets of the world," and the invocation is to "fly us anywhere . . . even here." This is some "street angel" who "sits, so beautiful by the road." "Some angel on his knees." This angel has feet, as well, and walks. This is the angel "by the battlefield." The angel, who, perhaps, needs a sense of redemption himself. I'm not exactly sure whether the angel is truly the messenger of God, or a messenger in search of redemption himself; and, this is what makes this book length lyric so interesting. The poem ends "The long road / and the conversation / of a lover, / going home." I like to think, at the end of the poem, that this angel is made whole, that the rectangular hole in the center of his chest is filled in (even with blue sky) and that he is no longer on his knees, in the street, a "beggar," fashioned" from "the gut strings" of a "guitar." I like to think that it is the poet who has become angel.
In addition to recurring images, repetition and assonance also occur in the poem. Sound effects seem not contrived, but natural. This is poetry that is not striving to be poetry. It simply is. Overall, a stunning book of image and text.
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