One As Other

One as Other, is a wonderful poetry collection written in a distinctly minimalist style. Focused on brevity and precise lyrical diction, the poems cover many different subjects from being focused on gardening and nature imagery, to more worldly and atmospheric poems, to the more political, philosophical, and religious. Distinctly non-narrative, most of deNiord’ s poems instead explore the emotional effect of an accumulation of lines through precise diction, musicality, and subversive movements. There’ s also this incredible musicality to the collection through the use of alliteration and internal rhyme. deNiord also explores the effect of small subversive movements within his poems, that give a richness to his work. The reader needs to be paying attention, and those small movements serve as a way to introduce surprise and a tonal change.

Chard deNiord is the author of four books of poetry, The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011), which was cited as one of the top ten books of poetry by the Boston Globe in 2011, Night Mowing (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005), Sharp Golden Thorn (Marsh Hawk Press, 2003), Asleep in the Fire (University of Alabama Press, 1990), and Interstate (University of Pittsburgh Press). His latest book of essays titled Some Main Things was published by Mad Hat Press. He is a Professor of English at Providence College and lives in Putney, Vermont.