Ebook {Epub PDF} How the End Begins by Cynthia Cruz

Cynthia Cruz is the author of four collections of poetry, including three with Four Way Books: The Glimmering Room (), Wunderkammer (), and How the End Begins (). Cruz has received fellowships from Yaddo and the MacDowell Colony as well as a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. She has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College in writing and an MFA in Art Criticism . New York, NY: Four Way Books, 74 pages. $ Of all the images that constellate the dense personal mythology in How The End Begins, Cynthia Cruz’s new collection, perhaps the one that best encapsulates the book is a “tiny, frozen diorama, / With a black and wild piston in it.”. Behind this image we might hear an echo of Emily Dickinson’s line, “The Feet, mechanical, go round— / A Wooden way.”.Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.  · How The End Begins. by Cynthia Cruz. Reviewed By Jeff Lennon. August 20th, Cynthia Cruz’s fourth collection, How The End Begins, is a swirling book of short, vivid poems on similar themes. In fact, it’s really one long poem, divided into many sections. The sections frequently have the same titles, and repetition is key to the book as a whole—“I repeat what I cannot bear,” Cruz Estimated Reading Time: 5 mins.

Cynthia Cruz is the author of three collections of poetry: Ruin, The Glimmering Room, and bltadwin.ru fourth collection, How the End Begins, from Four Way Books, is forthcoming in She teaches at Sarah Lawrence College. Tags: brandon hicks, Cynthia Cruz, Edward Helfers, How The End Begins, Jeff Lennon, Michael Phelps, Penny Perkins, Ramona Ausubel, Sons and Daughters of Ease and Plenty, weekend rumpus roundup How The End Begins by Cynthia Cruz. Cynthia Cruz is the author of Guidebooks for the Dead (Four Way Books, ), Dregs (Four Way Books, ), How The End Begins (Four Way Books, ), Wunderkammer (Four Way Books, ), The Glimmering Room (Four Way Books, ), and Ruin (Alice James, ). She has published poems in numerous literary journals and magazines including the New Yorker, Kenyon Review, the Paris Review, BOMB.

How The End Begins. by Cynthia Cruz. Reviewed By Jeff Lennon. August 20th, Cynthia Cruz’s fourth collection, How The End Begins, is a swirling book of short, vivid poems on similar themes. In fact, it’s really one long poem, divided into many sections. The sections frequently have the same titles, and repetition is key to the book as a whole—“I repeat what I cannot bear,” Cruz writes in “Fatigue Empire”. New York, NY: Four Way Books, 74 pages. $ Of all the images that constellate the dense personal mythology in How The End Begins, Cynthia Cruz’s new collection, perhaps the one that best encapsulates the book is a “tiny, frozen diorama, / With a black and wild piston in it.”. Behind this image we might hear an echo of Emily Dickinson’s line, “The Feet, mechanical, go round— / A Wooden way.”. How the End Begins juxtaposes the world’s seductions and incessant clamoring for more with the invisible world: the quiet, the call of the desert, and the pull to faith. The book chronicles this move toward faith and away from the “dingen” (things or stuff). Within the worlds of these poems are Orthodox monks, Emily Dickinson, anorexic patients inside a hospital ward, Larry Levis, Ingeborg Bachmann, Thomas Bernhard, Captain Beefheart, Henry Darger, Jean Genet, Goya, Karen Carpenter.