{"id":24586,"date":"2019-05-27T07:10:52","date_gmt":"2019-05-27T12:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=24586"},"modified":"2019-05-25T07:13:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-25T12:13:27","slug":"book-report-divine-fruit-by-julian-lynn-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/27\/book-report-divine-fruit-by-julian-lynn-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Report: Divine Fruit<\/i> by Julian Lynn (2017)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BookI bought this book last weekend<\/a>, and when I finished The Physics of Love<\/em><\/a>, I wasn’t ready to jump back into the Keats, so I read this book instead.<\/p>\n

The book is subtitled “Ecstatic Verse” and is called “devotional verse” on the back cover, but I thought most of it would be meditative in nature given the “paper rhythm” of a couple syllables per line which lends itself more to the contemplative pacing of haiku more than ecstasy, which I would associate with longer lines. Some of the poems are rather short, too, with a title and a couple of words for contemplation.<\/p>\n

But the poems do get a little more ecstatic, with several sexual-themed pieces. Is the sexual experience leading to an experience of the divine, or is the poet-narrator’s experience of the divine akin to sexual experience? The poems leave room for interpretation and, dare I say it, meditation<\/em> on the point.<\/p>\n

At any rate, some good moments, but I am still not a fan of the paper rhythm and prefer the more lyrical spoken rhythm in poetry.<\/p>\n

I’ve got a couple of other books by this author, as I mentioned, which are not poetry which I’ll probably delve into before too long, where “too long” might mean “within a decade” as my unread collection of books still numbers in the thousands.<\/p>\n

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