{"id":7575,"date":"2020-04-28T18:34:51","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T22:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/?p=7575"},"modified":"2020-04-28T18:34:51","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T22:34:51","slug":"book-review-the-place-of-broken-things-by-linda-d-addison-and-alessandro-manzetti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsterlibrarian.com\/TheCirculationDesk\/book-review-the-place-of-broken-things-by-linda-d-addison-and-alessandro-manzetti\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: The Place of Broken Things by Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Place of Broken Things <\/em>by Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti<\/p>\n

Crystal Lake Publishing, 2019<\/p>\n

ISBN-13: 978-1646338573<\/p>\n

Available: Paperback, Kindle<\/p>\n

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Imagine sitting in a poetry gallery appreciating each masterpiece while enveloped in a cloud of perfectly matching music (think Coltrane, Tchaikovsky, Hendrix). In the background, the words of famous poets move you to greater emotion and deeper understanding of each work of art. The Place of Broken Things <\/em>by Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti delivers this sensory experience through the poems they have written together.<\/p>\n

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This collection includes poems written by Addison, poems by Manzetti, and poems that are a collaboration. Addison\u2019s poems are spare, clear observations on and assessments of emotions. Her images are dark and sometimes threatening and describe pain and suffering even in the midst of love. In contrast, Manzetti\u2019s poems show a reality that is often unexpectedly beautiful but hints at a hidden or not fully acknowledged darkness. His poems are abstract with colorful, sensual, exotic, and spiritual imagery combined with musical, artistic, and literary allusions. Both poets create poems inspired by the work of other writers such as Neruda, Wheatley, and Ginsberg.<\/p>\n

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The collaboration poems are the most evocative because they take the individual artists\u2019 styles and images to the next level. \u201cThe Dead Dancer,\u201d for example, focuses on the music that accompanies this \u201cdance\u201d (\u201chorns mourning,\u201d \u201ccan loneliness have a soundtrack?\u201d \u201cdreams become strings played by Tchaikovsky\u2019s Path\u00e9tique\u201d), and \u201cLike Japanese Silk\u201d features a church with a bronze cross \u201cwhich looks like God\u2019s antenna\u201d and a \u201cback\u201d that \u201clooks like Japanese silk.\u201d In \u201cA Clockwork Lemon Resucked,\u201d a poet with \u201ca cure for sorrow\u201d and a knowledge of \u201cthe secrets of Mozart and Stevie Wonder\u201d is now suffering \u201creeducation\u201d in a cell \u201coverlooking a dump and two lemon trees.\u201d \u201cThe Yellow House\u201d is a magnificent poem that captures the beautiful rawness and disturbing need that must have been a part of Van Gogh\u2019s artistic desires (\u201cI will give you color – \/ I will give you stars and revelations\u201d).<\/p>\n

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Addison and Manzetti have collected \u201cbroken things\u201d and found a painfully exquisite emotional beauty in them. Highly Recommended<\/p>\n

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Reviewed by Nova Hadley<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: The Place of Broken Things was a nominee on the final ballot and lthe winning title for the category of Superior Achievement in Poetry for the 2019 Bram Stoker Awards.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The Place of Broken Things by Linda D. Addison and Alessandro Manzetti Crystal Lake Publishing, 2019 ISBN-13: 978-1646338573 Available: Paperback, Kindle   Imagine sitting in a poetry gallery appreciating each masterpiece while enveloped in a cloud of perfectly matching music (think Coltrane, Tchaikovsky, Hendrix). In the background, the words of famous poets move you to<\/p>\n

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