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- Playful Song Called Beautiful
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- Playful Song Called Beautiful
- Title
- Playful Song Called Beautiful
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9781609383992
- ISBN
- 9781609383992
- Publisher
- University of Iowa Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Date
- 30/04/2016
- Release Year
- 2016
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Item Length
- 8in
- Item Weight
- 147g
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Topic
- General, American / General
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 102 Pages
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Playful Song Called Beautiful ranges far into the intersections of faith and scientific thought, places where "there is no stranger who is / stranger than you, no / familiar who's more / familiar." In poems that are either formally rhymed and metered or written in syllabically structured three-line stanzas, Blair wanders among universal orders and failures of desire, where the unlikeliness of any of us being who we are, what we are, where we are forces us to consider--and reconsider--the possibilities of belief and meaning. Blair's poems are elegant and earthy, sometimes profane, and sometimes lovingly playful.
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Publisher
University of Iowa Press
ISBN-10
1609383990
ISBN-13
9781609383992
eBay Product ID (ePID)
219143105
Product Key Features
Book Title
Playful Song Called Beautiful
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, American / General
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
102 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5.5in
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3602.L335a6 2016
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"In John Blair's Playful Song Called Beautiful , rolling tercets become the unlikely medium for all manner of slippery, expansive, and emotive thinking. In these quietly arresting poems, opposites rhyme and the past gains all the grit of the present. And yet, amidst all this memory, 'There is no future.' For Blair, poetry is process, a forum where 'Today is under / construction, thank you / for waiting.' Nietzsche, Galileo, Goethe, Plato, Joyce, and others make visitations, and they, too, suffer the pressure, 'the lovely pain' of the present, must mean something now to this fierce, philosophical, and unforgiving sensibility. Blair's poetry is shifting and its mutable meaning is 'all the comfort you need, all / the comfort you get.'"--Craig Morgan Teicher, judge, 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize , "Rife with juicy epigraphs, gleeful alliteration, and dynamic enjambment, John Blair's latest book feels like philosophy filtered through wit and joy. Who could have imagined that insouciance and insight, though they share a prefix, could seem so akin, but here comes Playful Song Called Beautiful as proof."--Cyrus Cassells , "Rife with juicy epigraphs, gleeful alliteration, and dynamic enjambment, John Blair's latest book feels like philosophy filtered through wit and joy. Who could have imagined that insouciance and insight, though they share a prefix, could seem so akin, but here comes Playful Song Called Beautiful as proof."--Cyrus Cassells, "In these poems, a foodie banquet of delicious, exotic, risky platters of language glides before us. The dark and grit of a Baudelaire becomes the elegance of a Yeats, or the logic of an Auden gives way to the effervescent mysteries of a Rimbaud. In these wonderful meditations upon the world's uncertainties, we're thrilled by the dangerous, delightful turns."--John Bensko, author, Visitations , "John Blair is one of those poets who can do almost anything with a line: make it hum, make it fly--'to fill the space where wings once sung in you.' Playful Song Called Beautiful presents musings on mortality that'll make you glad to be alive."--David Galef, author, My Date with Neanderthal Woman , "In these poems, a foodie banquet of delicious, exotic, risky platters of language glides before us. The dark and grit of a Baudelaire becomes the elegance of a Yeats, or the logic of an Auden gives way to the effervescent mysteries of a Rimbaud. In these wonderful meditations upon the world's uncertainties, we're thrilled by the dangerous, delightful turns."--John Bensko, author, Visitations, "In John Blair's Playful Song Called Beautiful , rolling tercets become the unlikely medium for all manner of slippery, expansive, and emotive thinking. In these quietly arresting poems, opposites rhyme and the past gains all the grit of the present. And yet, amidst all this memory, 'There is no future.' For Blair, poetry is process, a forum where 'Today is under / construction, thank you / for waiting.' Nietzsche, Galileo, Goethe, Plato, Joyce, and others make visitations, and they, too, suffer the pressure, 'the lovely pain' of the present, must mean something now to this fierce, philosophical, and unforgiving sensibility. Blair's poetry is shifting and its mutable meaning is 'all the comfort you need, all / the comfort you get.'"--Craig Morgan Teicher, judge, 2015 Iowa Poetry Prize, "John Blair is one of those poets who can do almost anything with a line: make it hum, make it fly--'to fill the space where wings once sung in you.' Playful Song Called Beautiful presents musings on mortality that'll make you glad to be alive."--David Galef, author, My Date with Neanderthal Woman
Copyright Date
2016
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2015-035316
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Series
Iowa Poetry Prize Ser.
Dewey Edition
23
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