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No poem exemplifies this impulse better than the bookвЂ™s final numbered piece, вЂњвЂќ: The mode in which Niespodziany has written The NorthernersВ contributes to this sense of just-almost-magic, each poem offering its reader a glimpse of the moon, the illogical, the impossible, or the fantastic, only to leave us on the edge of wonder for the next poem.

It is the boy who seems most able to hold at once in his head the fact of worldly limitations and the presence of otherworldly wonder, the boy who seems able to convey both in a single stroke (from вЂњвЂќ): Or, perhaps, they are too afraid to do so for fear that itвЂ™s just sand. The saint, forester, and butcher have become either so disillusioned by its hardness (вЂњThey catch the butcher in bed with/ weaponry and a pint of ink./ Feet of feather, tethered time.вЂќ) or so hopelessly optimistic that such an awful thing isnвЂ™t true (вЂњThe saint/ waits up late/ for a sign./ The moon/ does the same.вЂќ) that they have been dissuaded from chasing this magic. He writes in вЂњвЂќ, вЂњThe real challenge is not/ lassoing the moon/ but reeling it in once caught.вЂќ Each of NiespodzianyвЂ™s characters encounters this dilemma at some point or another each of them is able to feel the moon in their grasp but is able to bring it no closer than that. While the primary four actors in NiespodzianyвЂ™s project provide a sense of stability in an otherwise fluid world, the ephemeral background players allow the book a sense of rapid motion through their whirlwind entrance and subsequent exit.ДЄt the core of NiespodzianyвЂ™s project is the recognition that the illogical exists but is always just beyond our reach. Appearing briefly are the two monks, the neighborhood, the postman, the glutton, the pond, the coat rack, and the forest. Most present are the saint, the boy, the forester, and the butcher. Threading the episodic bursts into, if not a narrative, then at least a form of textually-depicted progression, is The NorthernersвЂ™s cast of characters. The divisions between each poem are extreme, and yet, there are always two on a page and, save for the 37th poem, thereвЂ™s always a degree of visual continuity.

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The NorthernersВ is episodic, like watching a movie in a theater cast in violent strobe-lighting. Ben NiespodzianyвЂ™s The NorthernersВ (above/ground press, 2021) is a collection of 37 short, numbered poems written while watching Alex van WarmerdamвЂ™s 1992 film De NoorderlingenВ on mute.

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