Raw Heaven Author:Molly Peacock Raw Heaven is a daring and exhilarating performance by a poet of rare gifts. In these fifty-two poems Molly Peacock has made a radical appropriation of formal lyric conventions to create a rich, freewheeling formality of her own, one that matches her odd, original way of seeing. The strange and yet deeply familiar world of this r... more »emarkable book is both raw in its sexual energy and heavenly and it's intuitions about human behavior. The insistent rhymes of Peacock's poems are constant with the immediacy and frankness of her approach to her subjects. Her close-ups of anxiety and sexual urgency, her powerfully intimate evocations of domestic and romantic situations, her analysis of the abstractions- home, time, desire, loneliness- through which we organize our responses are matched by a knowing inquiry into the way language acts both to reflect and mold our perceptions.
Raw Heaven shocks, not only because of its intimacy and it's honesty about life and language, but because it is so utterly fresh and exciting. These witty, moving and challenging poems set a new tone in our poetry.« less