Case 5.5

Comninos, Susan. "Upstate, April." Blueline 15 (1994): 38. SPEC F127.A2 B58.

Lewis, R. "Suddenly there was a Loud Noise." Blueline 17 (1996): 50. SPEC F127.A2 B58.

This case returns to Blueline. “Upstate, April” was one of the most memorable poems I read because of its personifications of the seasons: “the spring loves me like blood, crazy/for my wrists and hands”. I’m always ready “for winter to lift its beard off the/scraping ground” but had no idea how to say that until I read this poem.

I was drawn to Randy Lewis’ “suddenly there was a loud noise” because rather than use images from the natural world, she uses a speaker at home to get across those feelings of isolation and loneliness when in a place like the Adirondacks, that is massive and wild, when there is no one to share the experience with.