Gene FrumkinFreud by Other Means
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Gene Frumkin's Freud by Other Means
is an extraordinary collection, mining a core where language and silence
meet and, through their interchange, interrogate psychological complexities
of what it means to be human, embodied, yet simultaneously divine. These
truly brilliant poems disclose a consciousness certain of the transformative
power of language, a language at once rugged and tender in its explorations
of the connective tissue of body, mind, and spirit. Central to these
poems is a sensuality of phrase that Frumkin always makes inviting,
delicious, tenderly available even in its most rigorous demand that
the reader abandon the known world of the mind for a less known, richer,
more generative poetic moment of critical reflection and associative
reach. For decades Frumkin has cut his own superb poetic path, and
Freud by Other Means continues and augments the achievements of this
major American voice. I want to call him a treasure, and
I will, since this book, like his others, is a storehouse where each
poem is a jewel that, when turned in the light of the readers
consciousness, reveals an immensity of being for which we can all be
grateful.
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