David MacRae Landon

Broschiertes Buch

Some Moments in a Gentle War

Beschreibung

There is a war to be won, but-David's poems argue-it must be fought gently. There are moments when we feel we may win. His poems tell the stories of such moments. Gently. In vigorous iambic pentameter! Some have won prizes: Able Muse, Southwest Review, Georgia Review. The celebration of what happened: "Some Moments in a Gentle War." There are moments we need to celebrate and David Landon has done just that in his new book of poems: moments in a café on New York's Upper West Side, on a hilltop overlooking the Ohio River, on a mountain top in East Africa, a mountain top in Tennessee, in an apartment overlooking the Hudson River. The poems tell the story of our "gentle war", our commitment, at times a struggle, to care for each other and our world, from moment to moment, from day to day, from year to year. To fight the gentle war is to live in protest against that other war, a war associated in several of the poems with "history": reckless ambition, abuse of power, indifference to suffering, violence. But there are moments-at times mysterious-when we feel our commitment to gentleness will win. David wants to commemorate those moments. In iambic pentameter? It is a meter usually more vigorous than gentle. But there are moments we need to remember and celebrate with gentle vigor! Some of those moments have won prizes: Able Muse, Southwest Review, Georgia Review. The celebration of what happened: "Some Moments in a Gentle War."

Autor

David Landon is the Bishop Juhan Professor of Theatre Emeritus at the University of the South in Sewanee. He won the American Academy Poetry Prize as an undergraduate at Harvard, where he was class poet. More recent poems have appeared in Able Muse (Write Prize), Southwest Review (Marr Prize, runner-up), Georgia Review (Lorraine Williams Prize, featured finalist), and elsewhere. As an actor he has performed with the Nashville, Alabama, and New York Shakespeare Festivals, with the Provincetown and New Orleans Tennessee Williams' Festivals. Several of his undergraduate poems were republished in the Harvard Advocate Centennial Anthology (along with poems byT. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, E.E. Cummings, etc). He has developed an improvisational approach to speaking Shakespeare based on Elizabethan secondary education: "playing with an open hand."

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Finishing Line Press
• Seitenzahl: 40
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 65g
• ISBN-13: 9798888387856
• Artikelnr.: 72094275