Neighbor Blood: Poems - Hardcover

Frost, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 096411514X ISBN 13: 9780964115149

Verlag: Sarabande Books, Incorporated, 1996

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Reseña del editor:

Neighbor Blood, Richard Frost's newest collection of poems, demonstrates a fluid ease within a range of poetic idioms - ballad meter, free verse, the sonnet, and a "dwindling" sestina. Frost, also a jazz musician, writes poems that seem loose, genuine, off-the-cuff - like jazz riffs that just "happen." But in poetry - as in music - Frost has earned his ease with practice.
Frost's free verse includes several poems on jazz, which spotlight - and demonstrate - the deceptively casual attitude of syncopated rhythm. "Jazz for Kirby," a long poem at the book's center, for instance, formally echoes the precision - and the necessity - of the jazz drummer and his distinctive diction: "'I mean. A dup, a-dup-a and a-dup-a zit tah./Like when it's a-poppa poppa pie, baby, you carry everything.'"
With a matter-of-fact sincerity and endearing self-deprecating humor, Richard Frost surveys childhood mysteries, adolescent angst, family erosions - the lonely comedies of our survival. Tremendously tender, these poems are parables concerned with the moral challenges of everyday life.

Biografía del autor:

Richard Frost is Professor of English at the State University College, Oneonta, New York.

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• Verlag: Sarabande Books, Incorporated
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 096411514X
• ISBN 13: 9780964115149
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88