Drumming Armageddon - Drew, George
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Often it is said of contemporary music that it's the soundtrack of our lives. If so, Drumming Armageddon is a poetic rendering of that soundtrack: Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Folk, The Blues-they're the genres comprising it, and they all are present in this collection. The poems pay homage to the artists-Dylan, Clapton, Lennon, Crow, The Beatles, Elvis-and track the poet's personal musical biography: his experiences and memories the music both relates to and marks. The poems, like the music, have plenty of swagger. Finally, though, they remind us that, at their best, poetry is music, music…mehr

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Often it is said of contemporary music that it's the soundtrack of our lives. If so, Drumming Armageddon is a poetic rendering of that soundtrack: Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Folk, The Blues-they're the genres comprising it, and they all are present in this collection. The poems pay homage to the artists-Dylan, Clapton, Lennon, Crow, The Beatles, Elvis-and track the poet's personal musical biography: his experiences and memories the music both relates to and marks. The poems, like the music, have plenty of swagger. Finally, though, they remind us that, at their best, poetry is music, music poetry. THE WORD SWAGGER Swagger is a nice word most especially when there is a deficit of swagger. Swagger is what you crave, like the full tilt grit of Janis Joplin, or the guttural smolder of James Brown. ...
Autorenporträt
George Drew is the author of nine poetry collections, including Pastoral Habits: New and Selected Poems and The View from Jackass Hill, winner of the 2010 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, both from Texas Review Press, Fancy's Orphan, Tiger Bark Press, and most recently Drumming Armageddon, Madville Publishing, 2020. Drew also has published a chapbook, So Many Bones: Poems of Russia. He has a new book of essays titled Just Like Oz, Madville Publishing. His biography appears in Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide, U. of Mississippi Press, edited by Catherine Savage Brosman. In 2019 Drew collaborated with singer/songwriter Rick Kunz on a CD of original poetry and songs entitled A Triumph of Loneliness, KBW Music. For more information, visit: http://georgedrew.com