The Tempest

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Publication Year:
2022

ISBN-13: 9781771339070

<p>Bearing witness to truth, <i>The Tempest</i> is invested in poetry that attempts to reveal human pain through the art of words. Each poem is powerful, but the book's strength emerges from its collective voice: different political conflicts, cultures, genders, ages, races-one shared human narrative. As we follow these survivors into their past and present lives we learn that poetry was the gift that restored.</p><p>The book's wanderings in and out of forms-erasure poetry, free verse, prose poetry, haiku, tanka, haibun-signal its approach to some important preoccupations. The collection includes tales of love and rage-from displacement and homecoming, Budapest and its lilac hills above the Danube, where bombs fall, where at a train station cattle wagons wait for Jews to be deported to Auschwitz, where her family lives in Pirka, a Bavarian war refugee settlement- to immigrating to Montreal's ice and snow, founding a family, fleeing an abusive marriage, and becoming an activist and taking a stand against domestic violence.</p> <p>Like the figure she describes in her ekphrastic poem "Clotho" as "Ensnared in long tentacles of hair, skeletal, toothless, chiseled in white marble..." Martonfi's <i>The Tempest</i> has hewn her own spare lines to recast her book's obsession with the politics, violences, and musics of the oral.</p>