What if all time were present, if that were the ultimate gift of consciousness: to know it and to walk among its phantasms, fears, constructs, contentions, and wild inscrutable junk? Who would even dare to imagine such a result for the human project? William Ryan, that’s who, and he has done it in this magnificent and sinuous sequences in which the poems grow from fourteen line sonnets to sixteen line sonnets and culminate in a Coda of over 300 lines. It is a monumental work of the imagination, all of it delivered in a language of dark and surreal speed that teaches a whole new form of thoughtfulness.
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This is a beautifully American book, as heartbreakingly accommodating as Ellis Island, and we mix around with Jonathan Edwards, Yeats, Bob Marley, Henry Miller, Cat Stevens, da Vinci, Bob Dylan and Basho, not to mention the street-weary spooks and hustlers of our national anonymity—a great, broken population for which, from the lofty to the funky, Ryan gives soulful, saxophoneful voice.
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This is a beautifully American book, as heartbreakingly accommodating as Ellis Island, and we mix around with Jonathan Edwards, Yeats, Bob Marley, Henry Miller, Cat Stevens, da Vinci, Bob Dylan and Basho, not to mention the street-weary spooks and hustlers of our national anonymity-a great, broken population for which, from the lofty to the funky, Ryan gives soulful, saxophoneful voice. -- Albert Goldbarth
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Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780899241555
Publisert
2017-10-25
Utgiver
Vendor
Lynx House Press
Vekt
204 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
G, P, 01, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
70
Forfatter
Om bidragsyterne
William Ryan is the author of the novel, Dr. Excitement’s Elixir of Longevity. His stories and poems have appeared in dozens of journals, including The Colorado Review, Minnesota Review, The Journal of Irish Literature, Art City, Red Dirt, Willow Springs, Stringtown, among others. His previous books of poems are Eating the Heart of the Enemy and To Die in Latin. He teaches at the University of Louisiana at Monroe.