Another way to play poems 1960-2017
"The collected works of a poet who bridges the rhythms and message of the beats, the disarming frankness of the New York School, and the fierce temerity of activist authors throughout the ages. From a 1967 verse letter to John Coltrane to a 2017 examination of Life After Trump, Another Way to P...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Seven Stories Press
2018
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| Ausgabe: | A Seven Stories Press first edition |
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "The collected works of a poet who bridges the rhythms and message of the beats, the disarming frankness of the New York School, and the fierce temerity of activist authors throughout the ages. From a 1967 verse letter to John Coltrane to a 2017 examination of Life After Trump, Another Way to Play collects nearly a half century of engaged, accessible, and deeply felt poetry from a writer both iconoclastic and embedded in the American tradition. In the vein of William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara, Lally eschews formality in favor of a colloquial idiom that pops straight from the page into the reader's synapses. This is the definitive collection of verse from a poet who has been around the world and back again: verse from the streets, from the the political arena, from Hollywood, from the depths of the underground, and from everywhere in between. Lally is not a poet of any one school or style, but a poet of his own inner promptings; whether casual, impassioned, or ironic, his words are unmistakably his own. Here is a poet who can hold two opposed ideas in mind simultaneously, and fuse them, with pathos and humor, into his own idiosyncratic verbal art. As Lally himself writes: "I suffered, I starved, and so did my kids, / I did what I did for poetry I thought /and I never sold out, and even when I did / nobody bought.""-- |
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| Beschreibung: | xvii, 538 pages |
| ISBN: | 9781609808303 978-1-60980-830-3 |