Brain Camp (Pitt Poetry Series) - Softcover

Webb, Charles Harper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0822963388 ISBN 13: 9780822963387

Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015

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"Webb writes with vinegar and honey. We're made to feel part of a coterie of inside jokes and clever references, and Webb is a welcoming guide into his world of sardonic asides and awed tributes. The voice in these poems is both dark and light, droll but touching, caustic yet nostalgic, wryly winking and nodding while clearly embracing the absurd." - The Los Angeles Review "[Webb is] a real wisecracker whose poems shimmer with wit. He's full of an exuberant whimsy, his brain on steroids, often wise, and nothing if not entertaining. Brain Camp certainly offers a welcome vacation for anybody looking to be intellectually amused by a guy with a gift for making fun of things." - Concho River Review

Reseña del editor:

Powered by a fierce, compassionate intelligence, Brain Camp explores with clarity and vividness a wide spectrum of emotions-love to hate, tenderness to brutality-all from a perspective both universal yet distinctly Webb's. Metaphors of startling aptness and originality, a voice at once endearing and provocative, high musicality, propulsive energy, wild imaginative leaps, as well as a mastery of diction from lyricism to street-speak, create a reading experience of the first order. These poems go down easy, but pack a wallop. As Robert Frost said poetry should do, Brain Camp "begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

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• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• ISBN 10: 0822963388
• ISBN 13: 9780822963387
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 102