{"id":3202,"date":"2013-08-28T16:09:24","date_gmt":"2013-08-28T16:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/?page_id=3202"},"modified":"2022-11-17T11:41:06","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T16:41:06","slug":"the-tyranny-of-milk","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/fourwaybooks.com\/site\/the-tyranny-of-milk\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tyranny of Milk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Tyranny of Milk<\/em><\/h1>\n

Sara London<\/h2>\n

A Stahlecker Series<\/em> Selection<\/p>\n

The Tyranny of Milk<\/em> offers 26 short-lined lyrical narratives that deftly yoke the singular to the epic with a confident, curious brand of wisdom. The collection\u2019s trajectory builds from sixth-grade science lessons using cows\u2019 eyes (\u201cwe pared them away \/ those shards \/ of stored sight\u201d) to a pondering of the earth\u2019s vast waters lapping up against boundless human thirst: \u201cso huge \/ we are in sorrow, so mired in metaphor and hope, you would know us by it.\u201d The oceanic scale of the poem \u201cWhy the Water\u201d echoes the local mapping of \u201cWetter,\u201d a series of vignettes about the mixed inheritance of bed-wetting and the elusiveness of identity: \u201cIt is yours \/ and not yours. \/ \u2026You race it.\u201d Another poem, \u201cTerra Incognita,\u201d retells a resonant, comic Lakota anecdote concerning the Lewis and Clark expedition. \u201cLove of Line: Notes for an Apprentice Shingler,\u201d turns to the heft and heave of the Old English poetic line in an homage to precision and hard work. London vividly brings personal mythology to the page, whether recounting the appetite of a dying poet who craves \u201cthe small, bloodless planet of the olive, smooth in his \/ five o\u2019clock martini,\u201d or depicting young sisters\u2019 slow awakening to sexual desire.<\/p>\n

The collection also weaves family stories to the traditions they form and are formed by, from the Yiddish-speaking uncles of \u201cSweet Salvage\u201d to the sister in Israel readying her gas mask: \u201cYou know \/ what an
\nanteater looks like?\u201d Frequently London deploys wry humor in the service of serious contemplation. In the semi-surreal title poem, with its ironic juxtaposing of \u201cmilk\u201d and \u201ctyranny,\u201d cows journey far from the
\npasture: \u201cThe night the Guernseys \/ came to dinner was not \/ the right night.\u201d Here, kosher traditions are upset, as the speaker grapples with the \u201cmixed-up blessings\u201d of family life, heritage and artful fate: \u201cthe milkblood draws \/ me into waking \/ worlds away.\u201d Ultimately these poems have telescopic reach: they transport us into distant worlds so completely we find ourselves reaching out to touch \u201ca snapping branch this noon,\u201d to trace \u201cthe granular deletions \/ of a mother\u2019s \/ deep cartoon love.\u201d<\/p>\n

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