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One Hand on the Wheel (The California Poetry Series) |
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This lean, expressive debut (the first in the California Poetry Series, edited by Joyce Jenkins of Poetry Flash) is like a mournful cowboy song, neither giving too much nor holding back. Although Dan Bellm's subject is his father's love and the troubled precincts of American masculinity, his subtext is the silence between sons and fathers. His spare, formal lines manage both to reiterate his father's pained reticence and to challenge it. He reaches into an imagined past for the origins of his father's hardness; for his tender, uncertain proposal of marriage to Bellm's mother; and for his perennial self-doubt as a second son who will turn away emotionally from his own second son. While Bellm is capable of sustained lyricism, in most cases he has chosen the terse statement over the elaboration, in work as spare and direct as the opening lines from "Discipline": "What he had to teach I didn't want to learn / What I wanted to learn he was not the one to teach, / and we turned from each other with a graceless dismay, / heartsore, hurt-shy, trapped together in a family." --Regina Marler
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