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- Book Title
- Pelican Tracks
- Publication Name
- Pelican Tracks
- Title
- Pelican Tracks
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780809325160
- ISBN
- 9780809325160
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 31/03/2003
- Release Year
- 2003
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 6.1 Oz
- Language
- English
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2003
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 104 Pages
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Pelican Tracks is a book of poems with a homing instinct. Elton Glaser travels a restless circuit between his native Louisiana and his adopted home of Ohio, from the "spice and license of the lowlands" to the "streets of Akron cobbled in ice." These reflections, leavened with a fierce wit and moving bravura of language, are extracted from the origins and ends of the poet's life--his birth in the final spasms of the second World War, the fears and excitements of youth, the death of parents, and the unexpected losses of adulthood. Marking his tracks between the Pelican State and the Buckeye State, Glaser records the damaged beauty of "everything sinking, everything rising again in the mind."
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Publisher
Southern Illinois University Press
ISBN-10
0809325160
ISBN-13
9780809325160
eBay Product ID (ePID)
2369151
Product Key Features
Book Title
Pelican Tracks
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2003
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
104 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
6.1 Oz
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Ps3557.L314p38 2003
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Elton Glaser's Pelican Tracks offers us an intimate and intricate portrait of gritty down-home life in Louisiana. The characters and places that populate this book reveal lives thoroughly lived and remind us that whoever and whatever surrounds us quietly invades us—in the best and perhaps worst sense of the word—and, finally, becomes us. Glaser observes ravenously and lovingly; these poems are beautifully detailed. In fact, reading these poems is not like reading really, more like watching and listening—the way we might engage a good film. There is no frivolous decoration here, no breading, just meat—no foam, just beer: dark and rich with a sharp bite after every swig. This is a singing that is both playfully and painfully desperate—like good blues, an embodied music that knows how to move gracefully between hard times and fat times." —Tim Seibles, author of Hammerlock and Hurdy-Gurdy, "These beautifully made poems-rich as redeye gravy, crystalline as Ohio ice-will delight anyone seeking a fresh understanding of the American soul. Elton Glaser is a stellar lyric poet, a true witness to the immanence that is everywhere. He's also a folklorist, weaving vivid stories of his native New Orleans: the music of the 'Only Female Cornetist in the Tenderloin' and the 'Worst High School Marching Band in the South.' The pine straw and fire ants, dirty rice and champagne are here, as are 'Mister Jelly Lord, the creole snoot' and "Miss Moment . . . hamhock of a woman.' Glaser is a national treasure. His poems are at once gritty and reverent, profound and comic. If you worry for the fate of literature, read this book and take heart."-Alice Fulton,author ofFeltandSensual Math , "Elton Glaser's Pelican Tracks offers us an intimate and intricate portrait of gritty down-home life in Louisiana. The characters and places that populate this book reveal lives thoroughly lived and remind us that whoever and whatever surrounds us quietly invades us-in the best and perhaps worst sense of the word-and, finally, becomes us. Glaser observes ravenously and lovingly; these poems are beautifully detailed. In fact, reading these poems is not like reading really, more like watching and listening-the way we might engage a good film. There is no frivolous decoration here, no breading, just meat-no foam, just beer: dark and rich with a sharp bite after every swig. This is a singing that is both playfully and painfully desperate-like good blues, an embodied music that knows how to move gracefully between hard times and fat times." -Tim Seibles, author of Hammerlock and Hurdy-Gurdy, "Elton Glaser'sPelican Tracksoffers us an intimate and intricate portrait of gritty down-home life in Louisiana. The characters and places that populate this book reveal lives thoroughly lived and remind us that whoever and whatever surrounds us quietly invades us-in the best and perhaps worst sense of the word-and, finally,becomesus. Glaser observes ravenously and lovingly; these poems are beautifully detailed. In fact, reading these poems is not likereadingreally, more like watching and listening-the way we might engage a good film. There is no frivolous decoration here, no breading, just meat-no foam, just beer: dark and rich with a sharp bite after every swig. This is a singing that is both playfully and painfully desperate-like good blues, an embodied music that knows how to move gracefully between hard times and fat times."-Tim Seibles,author ofHammerlockandHurdy-Gurdy, "These beautifully made poems-rich as redeye gravy, crystalline as Ohio ice-will delight anyone seeking a fresh understanding of the American soul. Elton Glaser is a stellar lyric poet, a true witness to the immanence that is everywhere. He's also a folklorist, weaving vivid stories of his native New Orleans: the music of the 'Only Female Cornetist in the Tenderloin' and the 'Worst High School Marching Band in the South.' The pine straw and fire ants, dirty rice and champagne are here, as are 'Mister Jelly Lord, the creole snoot' and "Miss Moment . . . hamhock of a woman.' Glaser is a national treasure. His poems are at once gritty and reverent, profound and comic. If you worry for the fate of literature, read this book and take heart." -Alice Fulton, author of Felt and Sensual Math , Elton Glaser's Pelican Tracks offers us an intimate and intricate portrait of gritty down-home life in Louisiana. The characters and places that populate this book reveal lives thoroughly lived and remind us that whoever and whatever surrounds us quietly invades us-in the best and perhaps worst sense of the word-and, finally, becomes us. Glaser observes ravenously and lovingly; these poems are beautifully detailed. In fact, reading these poems is not like reading really, more like watching and listening-the way we might engage a good film. There is no frivolous decoration here, no breading, just meat-no foam, just beer: dark and rich with a sharp bite after every swig. This is a singing that is both playfully and painfully desperate-like good blues, an embodied music that knows how to move gracefully between hard times and fat times.-Tim Seibles, author of Hammerlock and Hurdy-Gurdy, "Elton Glaser's Pelican Tracks offers us an intimate and intricate portrait of gritty down-home life in Louisiana. The characters and places that populate this book reveal lives thoroughly lived and remind us that whoever and whatever surrounds us quietly invades us--in the best and perhaps worst sense of the word--and, finally, becomes us. Glaser observes ravenously and lovingly; these poems are beautifully detailed. In fact, reading these poems is not like reading really, more like watching and listening--the way we might engage a good film. There is no frivolous decoration here, no breading, just meat--no foam, just beer: dark and rich with a sharp bite after every swig. This is a singing that is both playfully and painfully desperate--like good blues, an embodied music that knows how to move gracefully between hard times and fat times." --Tim Seibles, author of Hammerlock and Hurdy-Gurdy, "These beautifully made poems--rich as redeye gravy, crystalline as Ohio ice--will delight anyone seeking a fresh understanding of the American soul. Elton Glaser is a stellar lyric poet, a true witness to the immanence that is everywhere. He's also a folklorist, weaving vivid stories of his native New Orleans: the music of the 'Only Female Cornetist in the Tenderloin' and the 'Worst High School Marching Band in the South.' The pine straw and fire ants, dirty rice and champagne are here, as are 'Mister Jelly Lord, the creole snoot' and "Miss Moment . . . hamhock of a woman.' Glaser is a national treasure. His poems are at once gritty and reverent, profound and comic. If you worry for the fate of literature, read this book and take heart." --Alice Fulton, author of Felt and Sensual Math , These beautifully made poems—rich as redeye gravy, crystalline as Ohio ice—will delight anyone seeking a fresh understanding of the American soul. Elton Glaser is a stellar lyric poet, a true witness to the immanence that is everywhere. He's also a folklorist, weaving vivid stories of his native New Orleans: the music of the #145;Only Female Cornetist in the Tenderloin' and the #145;Worst High School Marching Band in the South.' The pine straw and fire ants, dirty rice and champagne are here, as are #145;Mister Jelly Lord, the creole snoot' and Miss Moment . . . hamhock of a woman.' Glaser is a national treasure. His poems are at once gritty and reverent, profound and comic. If you worry for the fate of literature, read this book and take heart." —Alice Fulton, author of Felt and Sensual Math , "These beautifully made poems--rich as redeye gravy, crystalline as Ohio ice--will delight anyone seeking a fresh understanding of the American soul. Elton Glaser is a stellar lyric poet, a true witness to the immanence that is everywhere. He's also a folklorist, weaving vivid stories of his native New Orleans: the music of the 'Only Female Cornetist in the Tenderloin' and the 'Worst High School Marching Band in the South.' The pine straw and fire ants, dirty rice and champagne are here, as are 'Mister Jelly Lord, the creole snoot' and "Miss Moment . . . hamhock of a woman.' Glaser is a national treasure. His poems are at once gritty and reverent, profound and comic. If you worry for the fate of literature, read this book and take heart." --Alice Fulton, author of Felt and Sensual Math, These beautifully made poems—rich as redeye gravy, crystalline as Ohio ice—will delight anyone seeking a fresh understanding of the American soul. Elton Glaser is a stellar lyric poet, a true witness to the immanence that is everywhere. He's also a folklorist, weaving vivid stories of his native New Orleans: the music of the ‘Only Female Cornetist in the Tenderloin' and the ‘Worst High School Marching Band in the South.' The pine straw and fire ants, dirty rice and champagne are here, as are ‘Mister Jelly Lord, the creole snoot' and Miss Moment . . . hamhock of a woman.' Glaser is a national treasure. His poems are at once gritty and reverent, profound and comic. If you worry for the fate of literature, read this book and take heart." —Alice Fulton, author of Felt and Sensual Math
Copyright Date
2003
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2002-010913
Dewey Decimal
811.54
Intended Audience
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Series
Crab Orchard Series in Poetry Ser.
Dewey Edition
21
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