Amor Fati Steve McEuen Books
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Amor Fati, Steve McEuen’s second book of poetry, tackles the complex encounter between religious faith and Nature. Loosely translated as “to love one’s fate,” the book peels away layers of the psychological struggle. McEuen acts a guide through a metaphysical experience. Wonder at the miracle of nature and the sheer vastness of possibility in the universe serve as uplifting sentiments that remain irrefutable. Anything can happen, even with the odds against it.
Amor Fati Steve McEuen Books
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Amor Fati Steve McEuen Books Reviews
Amor Fati Selected Poems of Steve McEuen is a CreateSpace product of 130 pages. With no guiding table of contents, I had to count page by page his 75 poems. The title poem appears on page 36.
“Amor Fati”, a Latin term loosely meaning “love your fate,” was expounded on by carnation-soul (yahoo.com) who’d “studied classics.” She wrote, “Amor fati is the belief that everything that happens to one—happy or sad—is to be seen as good since it is part of destiny’s way of reaching its higher purpose.”
The phrase is used repeatedly in Nietzsche and represents his general outlook on life, his concept of “eternal recurrence.” (Wikipedia)
McEuen’s title poem begins, “At being told that this same round/ of rented rooms with broken lights, / locked doors and faceless nights/ . . . “would be repeated . . . .” It ends with “o beloved fate, / o hopeless love, o solitary star, / o hapless joy at being told/ that this same round will be repeated.”
This isn’t a collection to be read in one sitting. Nor is it easy to classify.
James Parker, in the New York Time’s Book Review of July 20 this year, says, “[W]riters down the years have sought to perform various operations upon their readers—to amuse . . . shock . . . educate . . . titillate . . . uplift . . . madden, deprave and so on.”
McEuen “amuses” with word combinations that poet Elizabeth Bishop referred to when she said that writing poetry is an unnatural act. Here’s the opening of “Christmas Morning.” “Wakey uppy, birthday boy, / do your future feature act of / easy apples, port plums, red ribbons/ chrysanthemums blushed once, twice, thrice the/ cock’s a callen, cheri cheri bin a pollen por la rosy/ posy plumes aplomb your downy, drowsy, smiley/ facey . . . “
In “Walt Whitman’s Retort,” myriad hyphenated phrases took this reader from content to craft, which could be seen by some as crafty and contrived.
McEuen’s range of style and technique range from esoteric to simple, garrulous to terse, long to short, rhymed to free verse.
On a positive note, McEuen has four poems suitable to be set to music for a university choir. “Christmas Song” and “To the Angel of Despair” are two. “Craft of Poetry” would be perfect for an ultra-modern composer looking for a text, as would “The Birth of the Word.”
After publication, poems fly from the minds and hands of the poet to the heads and hearts of the reader. My older-ladies-and-gents writers’ groups would not be accepting nor would they read far into this book. But for the younger, hipper, more daring, less inhibited reader, this collection will be lauded and probably emulated.
The Real comes through in unsuspected places of nature and art. This is the function of art and the evocation of nature.
I purchased this book as a Christmas gift for myself, and I loved it! Would highly recommend for any poetry lover!
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