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In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life. His connected poems use traditional forms to create a free, contemporary music amidst the omens of the post-September 11 world. Mr. Kirsch is at home with all the strange juxtapositions of our culture: he can celebrate ''the paradisal sighs'' of Jane Birkin and still hear the ''angelic harmonies'' of Handel''s Messiah; he can observe military jets trailing ''stripes of smoke'' and find the quiet of a synagogue in Queens. Invasions...
In his second collection of poems, Adam Kirsch examines the world we live in now, a world in which the dangers of history have invaded the pleasures of private life. His connected poems use traditional forms to create a free, contemporary music amidst the omens of the post-September 11 world. Mr. Kirsch is at home with all the strange juxtapositions of our culture: he can celebrate ''the paradisal sighs'' of Jane Birkin and still hear the ''angelic harmonies'' of Handel''s Messiah; he can observe military jets trailing ''stripes of smoke'' and find the quiet of a synagogue in Queens. Invasions is a moving and highly personal collection, Mr. Kirsch''s exploration of what he calls, with fear and hope, ''the magically real.''
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