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The poems of Kevin Hart have nurtured international poetry audiences for nearly four decades. Translations of Hart’s work have appeared in Chinese, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, and Vietnamese, among other languages, and bear witness to the growing interest in Hart’s poetry both in the United States and abroad. This volume performs a valuable service by bringing together the best of Hart’s work from seven published collections, some of them now out of print, and from his forthcoming book, Barefoot. Wild Track reveals a poet capable of articulating genuine feeling and considerable philosophical depth. This volume confirms Hart’s standing as one of the most sophisticated poets writing today.
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Press; First Edition (February 1, 2015)
Language : English
Paperback : 214 pages
ISBN-10 : 0268011214
ISBN-13 : 978-0268011215
Item Weight : 2 pounds
Dimensions : 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
Reviewer: Robert Duistermars
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: This is a "new & selected" volume by an important Australian-American poet.
Review: This is a "new & selected" volume by an important Australian-American poet.
Reviewer: Hector
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Pompous and banal
Review: Hart's latest collection is a trite and tired trotting out of his favourite banalities, obscure metaphors, and graceless rhythms. I suppose this drivel means something to the author, but it reads to me like sophomore-level creative writing: pompous but empty, and oh so sincere. Hart wants desperately to be admired like Geoffrey Hill or W. H. Auden, but his urgency to be taken seriously has a palpable odour about it. I wasted my time on this dottle, but I hope my review will save yours.
Reviewer: craig
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: ... and again reflecting on the metaphor and style in joy and wonder
Review: Wonderful- I mean that in more than one sense as this book of superb poetry is both engaging and delightful but it is also full of wonder and I found myself reading some of the poems again and again reflecting on the metaphor and style in joy and wonder.
Reviewer: Phil G
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: beautiful poetry that moves one's soul
Review: Prof. Hart's poetry is rich in both sublime and quotidian dimensions that interact with each other felicitously. A comfortable stroll through this collection rewards the thoughtful reader with fertile images, ideas and inspirations about her/his own world and its relationship with the divine. I recommend this book wholeheartedly.
Reviewer: Bergotte
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Wonderful collection!
Review: *Wild Track: New and Selected Poems* is a wonderful collection of lyrics by one of Australia's best poets. There are other selections of this poet's work available, but this one is the fullest and the best.
Reviewer: AC
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: one of Australiaâs best poets, and a unique voice in English-language poetry
Review: I have lived with different incarnations of Hartâs Selected Poems for nearly twenty years, and it's a poetry I return to and teach with pleasure. Hartâs voice is a blend of the metaphysical and romantic, one of Australiaâs best poets, and a unique voice in English-language poetry. Hart is an accomplished philosopher but, while few readers would be able to follow every implication of his thought, the poems are not generally difficult, or too easily impressed with their erudition. They carry their learning with ease and grace, and Charles Simic has rightly praised their marrying of metaphysics and song. My favourites are Come Back, Approaching Sleep (âif anything is real, it is the mind approaching sleepâ) and Gypsophila (âAnother day with nothing to say for itself â / Gypsophila on the table, a child's breath / when breath is all it has to name the world) from Hartâs fourth collection Peniel, in which he perfected a 27-liner (3 tercets in 9 stanzas), The Room and the sequence Night Music. Hart was writing great poetry by his mid-20s, and my only disappointment with the book is that this material is underrepresented; it's a quibble I have with most New & Selecteds.
Reviewer: EAS
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Come like a jagged knife into my gut
Review: _Wild Track_ isn't simply a collection of poems; it's a story told about the soul of the human and its darkling journey through this world and into the next. Flashes of light punctuate this journey, however. Light and dark, night and day both impress themselves on man as he leaves tracks behind him ("footprints deep as graves," "The Stone's Prayer"). Nothing is above or beneath Hart's notice. Many poems resonate with spiritual longing, recalling Herbert or (more often) Donne ("Or if that's not your way these days/ Because of me, because/ Of something dead in me,/ Come like a jagged knife into my gut"). Others simply play. He moves from the timelessness of blank verse to the blunt emotion of the blues ballad ("Hell Songs"). Above all, Kevin Hart is a love poet. His eroticism is always spiritual, and vice versa. Poetry gives voice to longing--for God, for the other, for the squelch of fully-ripened fruit--and it shows how all of those things are occasionally one ("But God will look at us/ And know himself at last:/ And you will kiss his lips," "Nineteen Songs").
Reviewer: TKK
Rating: 5.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Poetry as Phenomenology
Review: Kevin Hart's poetry somehow manages to unite a simplicity of diction and meter with an elusive complexity of thought. The mystery buried inside each of us commands our attention, demands our reflection, and yet is a darkness. Or, rather, is the darkness, the darkness of God. "It is my house," he writes in an early poem, "and yet one room is locked." Our lives turn round their "one closed room," and these poems capture the experience of realizing that what grounds--what gives meaning to--our lives is no masterable foundation, no certitude or first principle, but gift and grace.
Reviewer: Amazon Customer
Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars
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Review: Full of underlining. Marginal notes, dedication page when claimed to be unblemished