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Oubliette
Bruce McLachlan
Manufacturer: Chimera Press
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A masterful piece.......2003-09-30

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Excellent........2003-08-08

A sci-fi prison with a wicked twist. An awesome tale of bondage, CP and fetish action with lots of sex and some truly memorable characters. Who would ever even think of trying to escape this place? I liked this book a lot. Hopefully there'll be a sequel or two, I really want to see the alien race that's coming.

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An Interesting Debut and Cautionary Tale
gnosticism just got a whole lot sexier
True and clear, more familiar than "religious magma" . . .
A beautifully written collection
Dark Beauty

Oubliette
Peter Richards
Manufacturer: Wave Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0970367228

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In his introduction to this, Richards' debut collection, Tomaz Salamun writes "It is inscrutable how Peter Richards produces this religious magma and bathes himself and us in it. How he restores internal time to the work of art."

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An Interesting Debut and Cautionary Tale.......2003-07-27

Once you get past the incredibly silly and hyperbolic preface by Tomaz Salamun--in which we learn that Peter Richards is pretty much the Jesus Christ of poetry--there is a lot of good stuff going on in Richard's poems. They happen in a verbally and temporily dislocated place which is infused by linguistic inventiveness, a welcome sense of humor, and a sometimes quite moving spiritual sincerity. They suffer, however, from the sort of fashionable but unnecessary opacity that cripples so much of the work being done by some of today's younger--and older-- poets. Richards is an American who in choosing to write like an Eastern European surrealist (not surprising, since he also a translator) ends up muddling his own very strong voice with a too self-conscious and deliberate obscurity (which would be okay if it were more generative than distracting). I guess that a very strong poet can make anything work, and Richards may make his chosen style work yet, but this too often comes across as pretentious in trying so hard to be "deep."

gnosticism just got a whole lot sexier.......2001-07-31

I didn't know or care much about the gnostic scriptures until I heard Peter Richards give a reading in Boston this spring. His reading was amazing, the poems and delivery poised between ecstasy and complete devastation. What surprised me most was how sexy he made spiritual concerns seem--the way he blended the erotic and the contemplative lives. The poems in Oubliette give voice to the dirty saint in all of us and should be cherished for that reason.

True and clear, more familiar than "religious magma" . . ........2001-07-06

The reviews on this book's page (and even some of the blurbs on its back cover) seem, unfortunately, to be of the sort that discourage people from exploring poetry. I was a student a few years back in Peter Richards' excellent poetry class at Tufts University, and his most remarkable talent as both teacher and writer was to rescue this art from pretentious language and cryptic ramblings. The value of his instruction is just as evident in his own work compiled here. Consider, for example, "The Moon is a Moon," a poem that appears to be a reaction to verse that obfuscates reality rather illuminating it: "The moon is not a hole / into an alternate sky / where the dark is quiet, / the thunder white.... / The moon is a rock with blue scrapes." Here, as elsewhere, Richards demonstrates that the most poetic insights inhere, as I can imagine him saying, in the quotidian, and are lost on those who think so little of their own experiences and sensations that they must supplement them with an artificial depth. I do not mean to suggest by this that the beauty of these poems is always obvious on the surface: Most need to be read many times for full effect. They also are best appreciated line-by-line, the better to absorb the clarity that is the hallmark of Richards' voice. Real highlights in this collection include "Circled Square Drawn to Scale," "This is the Color," "Boy for Sale," "The Sea Looking On," "Central Square," and others. I would especially recommend this book to readers of Charles Simic, Pattiann Rogers, and Wallace Stevens.

A beautifully written collection.......2001-06-04

Richards successfully blends the old and the new, the mystical and the mundane, the past and the future, and creates a world in which the reader is both invited and exiled from. It is a world that is occupied by lovers and the uninvited "third tree" (or the "three shades of love"), of playful word plays and rhythmic braides, of concealment and disclosure. Perhaps Salamun is right. Richards could be the leader of the next generation of American poets.

Dark Beauty.......2001-05-09

Oubliette is a powerful, dark and beautiful book of poems. While the title is absolutely appropriate -- a dungeon entered through a hole in the ground -- one imagines the prisoner has found a way to entertain himself in the darkness. The poems celebrate the power of the imagination over that of dissolution and decay. They are subtly playful -- and one of the real highlights is the poem that remembers a lover's ease at falling asleep under a tree in daylight -- a heartbreaking memory to recall in an oubliette. The poem that obsessively returns to the word "doth" is also brilliantly funny, repeating "doth" until it's meaningless, and ending "hey Doth, Doth, are you there, Doth?" One imagines the question echoing in the dark chamber.

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Hotel Oubliette
Jane Anderson
Manufacturer: L. A. Theatre Works
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Binding: Audio Cassette

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Le château aux 100 oubliettes

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Binding: Hardcover
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La petite fille aux oubliettes
Sophie Loubière
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Vera Linhartova
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