Reviews: A Change in the Air; Five Fifty Five; Bread and Circus; Let the Dead
from time to time, deliverThe ponies are “first to halt,/legs locked at a sudden rumbling, a change/ in the air or the rush of running water”. The titular poem is from a historical sequence on the defunct lead mines but it could also refer to climate change. This is a subtle collection which repeatedly goes to earth, from its deep sense of her mother’s impending death through numerous references to plantings.
Time is a circle here as Dooley’s subtle choreography of old words sent to Ireland from California in 1919 reflect with painful exactitude our new world: “We all had it, it was an epidemic.// I am awful lonesome now/ I suppose as you grow older you get lonesome if you have not made a fortune or money enough to fight the future . . . I see all the Powers girls are gone but one . . . A girl by the name of Mary was proprietress when I was home. Pierce Powers wanted me to make a match with her.
Or the “woke and tired” clowns in Cirque Du Sims who “Take copious selfies to recall . . . through/a filter, in a visually fortuitous moment. /. . . wait let me/video this present suffering. /Gather followers like sheep . . .” Bread and Circus is political, fiercely intellectual.
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