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Holly Roach
'Plans To Change And Other Fables'
In the preface to her first book of poems “Plans to Change and Other Fables”, Holly Roach asks that we do not dissect her poems too closely, only that should an aspect of them touch us we share it with others. But there again, that is literary criticism. Does the lure of the voice thrill us? Do we dance to the rhythms of its speech? Do our souls converse? Our prejudices drive our judgments even as we cloak them ingenuously in assumed objectivity.
Holly Roach is evidently not the first poet to write about the traumas and tragedy of love (she leaves the joys over for another occasion), and its bloody path to emotional dismemberment and survival.
“I bleed for you twelve times a year and I wish I didn’t as I’ve been told the truth of blood, I know the fate of me …”
However, she reflects on irrational passion, relational dysfunction, mutual destruction and imbalances of power with trailing beauty and seductive regret.
“her hands her own, she’ll place them where she wants and you’ll put yours where she lets you …”
She refreshes well-trodden ground exhilaratingly; indeed, she is elusively electrifying. The tone of her voice does thrill us,we do dance to her rhythms and we appreciate her exploration of troubled love, so we allow her to ruffle our sensibilities and to evoke phantoms of guilt, shame, sorrow and recognition, before we move on.
“She calls to you through her wooden casket of paper and pen.” |
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