Edith beale photographs by sarah
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Review by Julia Lisella
I’m not a fan of found poetry, so it was with some apprehension that I read the prefatory note by the author of this brief collection that “All of the poems in this volume are sourced from the dialogue transcripts of the documentary Grey Gardens (Albert and David Maysles 1976), and are spoken by either Edith Bouvier ‘Big Edie’ Beale or her daughter, Edie ‘Little Edie’ Beale. The transcripts appear in the book Grey Gardens by Sara and Rebekah Maysles (Free News Projects 2010).” My dislike and suspicion isn’t fueled by a belief that found poetry is unoriginal. Its concession that all language is unoriginal is actually what intrigues me about it. But in order to work well, found poetry needs to create something else beyond the language’s original context and claims, or to fashion it, form it so that even as it remains in context it tells us something new. Or at least that’s what I thought it was supposed to do well. But here in Edie (Whispering) I’ve learned that found poetry can do something else, something a bit subtler: It can create slight ripples in the original fabric, allow us to see the texture of the story somewhat differently. Nichols manages that in just 19 brief poems—some lyrical, some more prosaic. While the actual story of the eccentric m
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