Use Trouble - Couverture souple

Harper, Michael S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0252075986 ISBN 13 : 9780252075988

Editeur : University of Illinois Press, 2009

Synopsis

For decades, Michael S. Harper has written poetry that speaks with many voices. His work teems with poetry configured as awe, poetry as courtship, and poetry as elegy and homage. Infused with tales and riddles, sass and satire and surprise, Harper's poetry takes the form of psalms, jazz experiments, soft serenades, and radical provocations.

In Use Trouble, his first major collection since Songlines in Michaeltree, Harper renews poetry as the art of taking nothing for granted. In three groups--"The Fret Cycle," "Use Trouble," and "I Do Believe in People"--he draws on his seemingly inexhaustible resources to paint, sing, sympathize, and sorrow. Here are his tributes to his father and family, his irrepressible playfulness, and his lifelong romance between poetry and music.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Michael S. Harper, University Professor and professor of English at Brown University, is the author of numerous volumes of poetry, including Songlines in Michaeltree; Dear John, Dear Coltrane;Honorable Amendments;Images ofKin; and History Is Your Own Heartbeat. He is Poet Laureate Emeritus of Rhode Island and has been honored with the Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, the Melville Cane Award of the Poetry Society of America, the Black Academy of Arts and Letters Award, and the Robert Hayden Poetry Award, among others.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Illinois Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0252075986
• ISBN 13: 9780252075988
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 368
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