Shadows of the Pines - Softcover

Ranbom, Sheppard

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798888386224

Verlag: Finishing Line Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Shadows of the Pines, a comic novella in verse, introduces readers to Harold Rava, a poet who teaches poetry in a storefront juku during the day and in a rundown restaurant, the Pines of Rome, at night. Leading the franchise is a struggle for Harold. There is no money in poetry. The audience is roughly the size of the number of practitioners. But the subversive Rava School-which teaches students to make what Gerard Manley Hopkins called "great strokes of havoc"-could change all that. Unfortunately, the school's mission-creating an audience of millions of enthusiasts, one person a time-is beyond its grasp. To be successful. Harold must get the help of his teachers, the ghosts of poets and thinkers-Auden, Borges, Buber, Montale, Saba, J.B. Yeats, and others-who visit him each night at the Pines, And he must learn to better treat the words he writes, who rebel against him. Harold ultimately recognizes that it will not be the United States but Albania where poetry will flourish. Readers unfamiliar with poetry can simply enjoy the ride and be taken by the book's rhythm and riddles, its characters and comedy, for it is all Dreamland, a poetic narrative where anyone can enter.

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Sheppard Ranbom is a poet and playwright and the author of three books from Finishing Line Press: I Didn't Know Kyoto (2023), a chapbook written in a Japanese style favoring immediacy, brevity, and unabashed feeling; the comic novella in verse, Shadows of the Pines (2024), which satirizes the poetry industry and presents the rich inner life of a poetry teacher who is aided by the spirits of poets of the past and tormented by his own words; and this play. He is also the author of the book-length poem, King Philip's War (Settlement House, 2008), which recounts the genocide of the New England Algonquians. His website can be found at sheppardranbom.com

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798888386224
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 102
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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