Tim
Moof
Blues
Review
by MARIA JANNECK
Departzaeat f EngBsh
It's "circles of sound" . . .
it's "round joy" . . . it's "each
titer's rhythms" . . . it's
cavelike drugstore doorways"
... it's "oranges" and "sticky
Sers" yielding to a "rouga
slow1' tune . . . it's a
"pipe's gummed stem" and
"aroma fattened air" . . . it's
"laughter" . . . it's "waxed
quarter-planked cedar" and "a
book that grows out of the
tabletop" . . . "field daisies"
and "a twisted and gnarled
pine root" ... Tin Roof Blaes,
Vol. 1, no. 2 . . . Editor Murrav
Martz has again assembled
nine poems in what is the finest
and fastest selling literary
magazine U of N has seen.
A brown-tone of Sarah and
Blanche McGinley frontices the
publication. Sallie Nixon's
"Haiku" introduces the collec
tion by encircling the full round
Joy of children and snow.
The romantic illusion of a
young man pleasing his
Schererezade on a wedding
anniversary gives way to
tawdry dreams of cheap sex
books in dingy drugstore
doorways in Ted Kooser's
"Anniversary." Upon awaken
ing and finding the dream real,
the speaker is reluctant to
return home and longs for his
former innocence. Mr. Kooser's
poem treats a complex ex
perience with delicacy and
perspicacity.
The reader of Susan Martz's
nostalgic "Early Oranges"
shares her delight of "this first
cold Thursday" through tactile
and succulent images. Though
Barry McDonald's poem, "up
wishbone alley," doesn't hang
together, it is imagistically
strong and, at points,
rhythimcally satisfying.
Her laughter, once Joyful,
now ellusive, shall become the
"terrible beasts" of her future
in Greg Kuzma's poem, which
softly traces the transition
from jny to cynisicsm.
Jim Weaver's "The Scow" is
a pleasant poem about sailing,
but the poetry is a little jarring
since the sound sequence of the
first two lines is awkward. The
image of the last two lines,
however, is exquisite since the
scow verges on becoming the
wind save that "the parchment
like sound of the luff" forces it
to retain its unique identity.
"The Sleep Album," con
ceptually and imagistically, is
like a jigsaw puzzle in which all
the locks and keys are wrong.
The tone of Sallie Nixon's
"Field Daisies" is that of a
mother SDeakinff to a child
about the heresy of picking
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wild flowers but the language is
deceptive for the subject of the
poem is the artist's attempt to
mirror nature. G. Lynn
Nelson's "The Gift" captures
the essence of the true gift of
fered by a demure Tyro, who in
this case is somewhat sen
timental. Though Tin Roof Blues may
seem to be a "blue box" wrap
ped in "pink ribbon," it is a
"pine root twisted and gnarled
from struggling with rocks,'
"a silent slant of sunlight;" Tin
Roof Blues is "the heart of
things."
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THE NEBRASKAN
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1970