Zealand

By Rebecca Byrkit

poetry by dir of The Poets' Voice & Range, in AZ This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0933313284
• ISBN13: 9780933313286
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Sun/Gemini Press
• Length: 75 Pages

Customer Reviews

One of the best books of poetry printed in the 90's

If you haven't read Becky Byrkit's poetry, it's probably because you aren't a part of Tucson's tremendous realism scene. If you haven't read her poetry, you should. She fuses the power of realism with a style at times recklessly liberal, drunken and alive with a language that pushes words into supernova. She wrote a series of poems, some of the strongest I have ever read, about the suicide of her lover, Joe Bolton, who called her into the room and shot his brains out for her to see. She said that the poems she wrote after his suicide were breakthroughs for her. Line after line, phrase after phrase run with novel compelling verse that has stuck with me for more than a decade. I've heard the ring of her poetry in my head for most of my adult life, having had access to the manuscripts before Zealand came out. I often read from her work at readings and on the radio, and it never fails to impress. If you haven't read Byrkit, it might not be your fault, but now that you know, do not miss the opportunity. Her work is guttural and real, not for the faint of heart, full of adult situations, packed with experience. Amazing.