At the Town Cafe edition by Cat Kigerl Literature Fiction eBooks
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This book is an encore performance by the author of Stirring the Water, Cat Kigerl, whose quiet wisdom subtly reflect maturing, meditation, and impermanence without self-assertion or imposition on the landscape. It is a delicate read.
At the Town Cafe edition by Cat Kigerl Literature Fiction eBooks
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At the Town Cafe edition by Cat Kigerl Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
This is a substantial volume of poems, written from the perspective of the poet sitting in a town cafe. These poems remind us that reflections written in a town café cover everything we can deal with in the larger world mortality, the similarities and differences between men and women, our changing relationships with our parents, the human need to connect with nature.
Each poem is in some way “a delicate unfolding, a pause before the leap.” I felt that early in the book in a two-part poem about her mother, who “has entered the age of fragility. . . a time when new memories are as fleeting as a train whistle in the night. . . . she never expected to live this long, long enough to know a husband’s laundering, cooking, dishwashing after decades of her servitude.” The poet concludes that “longevity becomes a timeless learning, and waking life can be as fleeting as a dream.”
I was startled by the sly way she shows an ex-gang leader’s understanding of hummingbirds. “After being a gang leader in Chicago in the 1930's he stayed hollow and hard inside. . . To be beaten was to be a coward in his mind, as anger defined him.” Later as an old man, he sees two hummingbirds in his yard “fight for the territory of a blood-red rose, despite the thorns.” He understands this immediately and decides to and buy a bird feeder at Walmart, which he uses “to lure them with water and sugar”, then watches them “seeking turf rights in a bird feeder, an instinctual knowledge . . . Discipline, he figured, was what carried them to his street.” I think that final line makes the poem very special.
The last poem in the collection is the title poem, where “the café is crowded with those who, . . . like the owl who has spotted the vole, are focused, sweeping down upon their moments.” Though the café is filled with the chatter you’d expect, “There is room for silence amidst the hubbub. . . yet the café does not ring with clarity. It is simply calm in a steady, drone-like way, a way that invites the floor boards to creak.”
The poet takes us to the farthest regions of the human heart in this town cafe.
A thoughtful and interesting read.
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