The poems in this collection capture moments of glory and tragedy in ordinary places: a Grants Department Store, a Vegas motel, and cities such as Yonkers and Bridgeport, where both conmen and the common man (or woman) mingle with superheroes, artists, musicians, and the gods of Greek mythology. The speaker in one poem recalls when he was "a boy of steel" who waited "for catastrophe // as if it were a bus," and who "undid the past by running away from it // at unimaginable speeds." In turns surprising, humorous, and tender, every poem in this collection stands as evidence of Surowiecki's warm heart and a sharp intellect.…mehr
The poems in this collection capture moments of glory and tragedy in ordinary places: a Grants Department Store, a Vegas motel, and cities such as Yonkers and Bridgeport, where both conmen and the common man (or woman) mingle with superheroes, artists, musicians, and the gods of Greek mythology. The speaker in one poem recalls when he was "a boy of steel" who waited "for catastrophe // as if it were a bus," and who "undid the past by running away from it // at unimaginable speeds." In turns surprising, humorous, and tender, every poem in this collection stands as evidence of Surowiecki's warm heart and a sharp intellect.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
John Surowiecki has published fourteen books of poetry. His most recent chapbook, a collection of elegies called Missing Persons, won the Encircle Press Chapbook Prize. Other chapbooks have won contests from Burnside Review Press, White Eagle Coffee Store Press, Portlandia Group and West Town Press. His The Place of the Solitaires: Poems from Titles by Wallace Stevens, was published in 2022 by Wolfson Press. Surowiecki is the recipient of the Poetry Foundation Pegasus Award for a verse-play My Nose and Me (A TragedyLite or TragiDelight in 33 Scenes) which was presented by the Foundation at the Shakespeare Theater in Chicago, directed by the late Bernie Sahlins as part of the Poetry on Stage series; staged readings were also produced at the University of Connecticut and elsewhere.
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