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Agel is a poet of considerable experimental skill with a particular talent for the short lyric.
"Have You Seen The Ocean In Your Eyes?" introduces the road which you can path your own way. This book guides to readers through the real life with imagination world.
This book cannot be defined only as the ocean itself, it's a diary of life, and it's something that we wish for the country where used to be better to live, is the world that isn't imaginative. Each poem illustrates the imagery of the world we dream of.
I wholeheartedly believe that my collection will fill a niche in this regard, While also fulfilling most reader's needs as a biography.
Every page opens a new door.
A written diary is a part of life.
The cycle of life changes in one direction: it is a trace from the past.
All memories from the past bring us to life.
We go deep as we savor every moment we remember.
"Have You Seen The Ocean In Your Eyes?"
is the journey of the memorial times.
Although every part of life is retrospective,
life portrays present moments.
Despite all memories and our experiences
in all areas of life, our observation summarizes everything.
Enise Agel’s second collection, Have You Seen the Ocean in Your Eyes?, is definitely worth exploring, especially for ardent readers of lyrical poetry. Though glimmering with the biographical, the concrete narrative threads of the collection are second to Angel’s ability to craft poems that prioritize thoughtful treatment of subjects such as time, love, pain, and searching. With a special affection for walking and movement throughout the collection, Agel leads the reader to and along various literal and metaphorical pathways, though only occasionally in ways that invite the reader to appreciate reflective possibilities of the journey.
Agel is an accomplished writer of the short lyric. The poet’s emotional and intellectual gestures throughout the collection demonstrate an impressive experimental energy fueled by careful study of and relationship with the genre. In poems like “The End of the World,” Agel exercises playful skill with the construction of formal patterns which unfold and build ideas out of temporality and space. In “Promise,” the lyric hums with an exigence for writing in the face of the brevity of human life. These poems are exciting and fresh, challenging syntax and grammar (especially around verb tenses) in ways that denote Agel’s unique voice. And if taken as a project in the extended experiment of pushing the lyric to its most captivating potential, Have You Seen the Ocean in Your Eyes? succeeds admirably.
The memory poems in this collection, especially those that catalogue the observations made on specific walks taken during the speaker’s travels abroad, are often not as strong as other poems in the collection. Accounts of moving through specific cities and landmarks—London, the Colosseum, paths outside of towns, etc.—are rich in their imagery. But the poems are variable in their reflection upon these locations, only occasionally inviting the reader into the poet’s ideas and specific impressions about place. Agel is a poet certainly capable of constructing such depth of insight, and the reader is left wanting more from her anecdotes and observations.
It is undeniable that Enise Agel is a poet of considerable talent and that her poetic skills are powerfully on display in this collection. The complexity and diversity of Agel’s work encourage the reader to continue following this poet’s literary career. There is tremendous promise in the pieces. But perhaps a more selective version of this manuscript (a chapbook emphasizing the short lyrics, perhaps) might have made for a more impressive showing.
Hello! I am writer/scholar with an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in Literature from Miami University. My book reviewing interests include poetry, graphic novels, nonfiction, and children's & YA literature.
"Have You Seen The Ocean In Your Eyes?" introduces the road which you can path your own way. This book guides to readers through the real life with imagination world.
This book cannot be defined only as the ocean itself, it's a diary of life, and it's something that we wish for the country where used to be better to live, is the world that isn't imaginative. Each poem illustrates the imagery of the world we dream of.
I wholeheartedly believe that my collection will fill a niche in this regard, While also fulfilling most reader's needs as a biography.
Every page opens a new door.
A written diary is a part of life.
The cycle of life changes in one direction: it is a trace from the past.
All memories from the past bring us to life.
We go deep as we savor every moment we remember.
"Have You Seen The Ocean In Your Eyes?"
is the journey of the memorial times.
Although every part of life is retrospective,
life portrays present moments.
Despite all memories and our experiences
in all areas of life, our observation summarizes everything.
The white clouds swipe across the sky
The marvelous park is the beauty of the environment alongside the city.
The beauty of lakes surrounds by various Anatidae
The lakes are camouflaged by the endless palette of trees
Which pedestrians are as if hurrying up like a Sciuridae.
The path of cheerfulness is the destiny of our adored center.
Enise Agel is an avid reader, and currently a poetess of “Have You Seen the Ocean in Your Eyes?” (2024). view profile
Published on July 23, 2024
Published by Cosmo Publishing
1000 words
Genre: Poetry
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