K: A 21st Century Canzoniere, by I Goldfarb
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Goldfarb makes Dante's platonic love sensible—his use of the Muse indispensable. If "Muse" is in both "amuse" and "museum," the work passes muster with both. The reader, not necessarily the Muse, ends up falling in love with this poet—with his gentle nature, his genteel old-fashioned wrestling with desire & insistence on feelings having presence & body—without flesh. Goldfarb makes the reader into a poetry-sensitive nymphette. —Andrei Codrescu, author of So Recently Rent a World: New and Selected Poems I Goldfarb celebrates an idealization of chaste love in K: A 21st Century Canzoniere, a sonnet storybook set on a contemporary campus where a beautiful student inspires an aging professor to fathom their relationship through devotional lyric. Written at the intersection between metaphysical spirit and psychological soul, K: A 21st Century Canzoniere tenderly lays on the line Goldfarb’s life-changing encounter with a student marvel radiant enough to morph into his Muse and as such to inspire 590 songs. Goldfarb’s model is, of course, The Canzoniere of the Italian poet Petrarch, who in the church of Saint Clare saw and fell in love with the young woman whom he called Laura. From Petrarch comes the lesson that a young woman’s image is the means for the poet to cultivate a transcendent perspective on his life and personality. —Ken Warren, Author of Captain Poetry’s Sucker Punch K: A 21st Century Canzoniere presents a future for poetry while embracing its historical arrangements. The specificity and attention of the language provides us a collection of contemporary sonnets through a music which is neither clichéd nor portentous. Goldfarb silhouettes his chosen form with precision and sparkle, and accentuates the poetic dynamics through which the sonnet can further display the depths of possibility and imagination. This is a book of rare intensity. — Geoffrey Gatza, author of APOLLO The Canzoniere of I Goldfarb is inspired. From the outset, with this title, it stakes its claim to the continuity of the Petrarchan tradition. It is inscribed in the rivalry of poets. The sonnet does not hide this. The held breath at the two modes of appearance of the beloved, her perception in beauty and her "image" in absence, scarcely is it "at an end" at the conclusion of a sonnet or sestina than it catches its breath, takes off again in poetry, both enslaved and free, grateful and inventive, dependent and emancipated, debt-ridden and prodigal, 590 times; an exploit, a resource, a pace both regular and surprising: the surprise is handled in the "conventional" form, the first all the more powerful as the second is more "classical." I admire in I Goldfarb this copiousness of density, this fecundity of the sonnet form, invented eight centuries ago, and still giving of itself. — Michel Deguy, prominent French poet
K: A 21st Century Canzoniere, by I Goldfarb- Amazon Sales Rank: #9167298 in Books
- Published on: 2015-03-13
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.07" w x 7.50" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 426 pages
About the Author Born in the Bronx in 1940 and educated in the East, I Goldfarb spent most of his long professional career on the West Coast in preparation for a second career as a writer. A number of poems from the Canzoniere have appeared in Kenneth Warren's House Organ, beginning with issue 78 (Spring 2012).
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. A Romance of the Soul By Stanley Geist At what point does absence become presence? When does erotic intensity seek out and embrace chastity and abstinence as its highest form of fulfillment? Imagine being consumed by a love that will never known consummation and that ultimately will find its bliss in the evocation of its loss. This is what you will find in the beautiful and haunting book "A 21st Century Canzoniere" by I. Goldfarb. It contains 590 sonnets written in a style that Petrarch, Guido Cavalcanti, and the troubadours would have felt instantly at home with. Yet it is very much a 21st century book due to its scope, its literary allusions (Baudelaire, Proust), its artistic and cinematic references (Cleo de 5 a 7, Gustave Courbet), all combined with a touch of Jewish mysticismGoldfarb's "Canzoniere" is nothing less than the daily diary, written in strict sonnet form, of a tortured soul in search of its "anima". It could be said more simply: it's a poetic saga of an older man's love for a much younger woman. It's an attempt to find a language that will correspond to the ecstastic search of the lover for the beloved. In the end it becomes a homage to a pure state of immaterial love detached from the object that brought it into being.Goldfarb expresses it better: "To see you is to be/caressed by the ineffable/to possess in my soul/what possesses us all".Reading this book will help you to realize that absence and presence are one, and that the absence of the loved can lead, in love, to an even higher, more exalted state of being. The goal of desire is joy and that joy finds its highest and best expression in the possession of that which can never be possessed. To quote Goldfarb again: "God gave me for my pardon/the greatest love of all/to love a lovely woman/as if a little girl/without possession's passion/or bodily desire".Easier said than done, however, as Goldfarb goes on to say: "However chaste the love I feel/I love a soul enfleshed and real".This is the dynamic tension that informs his book and creates an erotic suspense. "The perfect love is not to touch/the body that I love so much/but lie instead within your soul/where mind and body make a whole".If you wish to know the outcome of this spiritual struggle, you will have to buy the book.
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