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, said the shotgun to the head. Kindle Edition
Have not been born yet
They are waiting quietly
For their past to die
please give blood
Here is the account of a man so ravished by a kiss that it distorts his highest and lowest frequencies of understanding into an Incongruent mean of babble and brilliance...
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherMTV Books
- Publication dateNovember 19, 2009
- File size2710 KB
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Copyright 2003 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Zack de la Rocha , Said the Shotgun to the Head is an invitation to live and die in the moment, a confrontation of the politics of empire, a dare to transform oneself in the face of fear and a post 9-11 love song all in one.
The Washington Post Astonishing...poet. The internal rhyme, metrics, and imagery are so fleet...that they're humbling.
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- ASIN : B002XQAAYA
- Publisher : MTV Books; Original ed. edition (November 19, 2009)
- Publication date : November 19, 2009
- Language : English
- File size : 2710 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 194 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0743470796
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,227,408 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #321 in Poetry About Death
- #1,155 in American Poetry (Kindle Store)
- #1,703 in Death, Grief & Loss Poetry (Books)
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"behold, a story untold
I have seen the moon
in a sundress
the ocean
beneath her
rippling in laughter
at the sight
of a lone man
who learned to walk on water
for a glimpse
of his truth
in her crater"
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Das Williams aus Lyrik durchaus auch eine Waffe bauen kann, ist bekannt, spätestens seit dem Release seiner Alben. In ,Said the Shotgun to the Head stellt Williams nicht nur seine Fähigkeit zur großen Geste im Sinne von bestechend tiefsinniger Metaphorik und emotionalen Höhenflügen unter Beweis, sondern verbindet sein Liebesgedicht mit bitterer Zivilisationskritik und den finsteren Tatsachen dieser unserer Welt.
Heraus kommt dabei ein Gedicht, dass zwischen Popkultureller Referenz (siehe Buchtitel: "nature is a whore, said the shotgun to head , and it smelled like teen spirit"), Verbeugungen vor den umumstößlichen Meistern wie Shakespeare, biografischen Zügen und kritischen Untertönen nie vergisst, dem ästhetischen Aspekt von Lyrik Genüge zu tun: Williams' Metapher, Bilder und Wortspiele sind nicht nur in einer unwiderstehlichen Metrik (hier spürt man förmlich den Spoken Word Hintergrund des Künstlers und seine Fähigkeit, seine Worte in Hooklines und unvergessliche Strophen zu packen), sondern wird auch im Layout auf eine einzigartig bildhafte Art und Weise dargestellt.
Lyrik des 21sten Jahrhundert, 100%ig empfehlenswert ... zum einen für alle, denen das Gedicht und die Moderne nicht als Widerspruch erscheint, zum anderen für genau die, denen es genau so erscheint: hier ist der Gegenbeweis. Eine Oase in der Wüste der teilweise banalen Lyrik dieses Jahrtausends ...