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Standoff: Poems
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I often feel as though I've entered
a standoff between what
happens around me & what's
going on inside—& this life
that goes on & on inside my head
goes on & on & on it seems
almost without me, as
it has since childhood . . .
—from "Standoff"
For three decades, David Rivard has written from deep within the skin of our times. With Standoff, he asks an essential question: In a world of noise, of global anxiety and media distraction, how can we speak to each other with honesty? These poems scan the shifting horizons of our world, all the while swerving elastically through the multitude of selves that live inside our memories and longings—"all those me's that wish to be set free at dawn." The work of these poems is a counterweight to the work of the world. It wants to deepen the mystery we are to ourselves, stretching toward acceptance and tenderness in ways that are hard-won and true, even if fleeting.

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I often feel as though I've entered
a standoff between what
happens around me & what's
going on inside—& this life
that goes on & on inside my head
goes on & on & on it seems
almost without me, as
it has since childhood . . .
—from "Standoff"
For three decades, David Rivard has written from deep within the skin of our times. With Standoff, he asks an essential question: In a world of noise, of global anxiety and media distraction, how can we speak to each other with honesty? These poems scan the shifting horizons of our world, all the while swerving elastically through the multitude of selves that live inside our memories and longings—"all those me's that wish to be set free at dawn." The work of these poems is a counterweight to the work of the world. It wants to deepen the mystery we are to ourselves, stretching toward acceptance and tenderness in ways that are hard-won and true, even if fleeting.

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        July 18, 2016
        Rivard (Otherwise Elsewhere) stands “inside the murderous/ machinery” to take up a better perspective on the noise of the modern world. He incorporates a wide swath of references, images, and source materials, reflecting the haphazard nature of postmodern mass culture. Moreover, Rivard possesses a charmingly clever and idiosyncratic facility with his metaphors and turns of phrase, as in “the nutshell/ space of the mind” or “the vexed/ but coppery-bright buzz that likewise/ comes if you cup a loud cricket in your hand.” But for all the delightful wordplay, too often it’s difficult to discern any direction; the language seems to add to the din rather than distilling a focused critique of it. Elsewhere, Rivard presents unvarnished moments for deep contemplation, but has a habit of undermining himself by striving too hard for profundity. In “Call and Response,” he notes a previous reader’s marginalia on a Zbigniew Herbert poem, pondering the emotions of the note-taker. But in commenting on the distance between the dead Herbert and the “troubled, nameless” reader, Rivard ends up leading the horse to water and expecting it to drink. Perhaps Rivard should have better trusted his own advice that “some of what happens/ by accident occasionally/ (or more than occasionally)/ ought to be thought/ a gift.”

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        Starred review from June 15, 2016

        James Laughlin Award winner Rivard (Wise Poison) here finds himself in midstream, mediating on "What's left?" The feel is not, however, of resignedly looking backward but of thoughtful recalibration. The collection opens, "I miss myself most/ these days with friends" and ends "here we go again, full speed ahead." In between, in well-crafted, cleanly ringing poems, the poet reflects on his father's dying, recalls beloved authors, reveals the smarts not to discourage a friend's enthusiasm, declares "that a little foolishness/ goes a long, long way, I'd say;/ a lot drops dead/ in its tracks," and, in the title poem, headily embraces what's "baffling, vast, elemental, / hopeful, & threatening/ as that--but different." VERDICT So what's left? Wise, graceful poems for all readers.

        Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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I often feel as though I've entered
a standoff between what
happens around me & what's
going on inside—& this life
that goes on & on inside my head
goes on & on & on it seems
almost without me, as
it has since childhood . . .
—from "Standoff"
For three decades, David Rivard has written from deep within the skin of our times. With Standoff, he asks an essential question: In a world of noise, of global anxiety and media distraction, how can we speak to each other with honesty? These poems scan the shifting horizons of our world, all the while swerving elastically through the multitude of selves that live inside our memories and longings—"all those me's that wish to be set free at dawn." The work of these poems is a counterweight to the work of the world. It wants to deepen the mystery we are to ourselves, stretching toward acceptance and tenderness in ways that are...

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