The Book of Catapults - Couverture souple

Rothman, David J

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 061575418X ISBN 13 : 9780615754185

Editeur : White Violet Press, 2013

Synopsis

These poems disarm me. I come to them like any reader might, "bowing to the terrible world," only to find Rothman whispering "Now you must give up those cares for charms." Through it all, these fine poems set me to shivering with recognition and laughing aloud at the many and varied ways the poet turns his wry plow at the end of a line's furrow. Rothman has tremendous control of music, tone, and angle of approach to his subjects, proof "A man knows how to sing/when he has to."
~ Chris Ransick
author of "Language for the Living and the Dead"
David Rothman's latest collection effervesces with intelligence of the freshest kind—poems one reads not only for pleasure, but for their insights and revelations, as well. Rich with dark humor (as in the devastating sendup of the L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E poets in "A Letter Home") or with grief (as in the ambitious and profoundly sad meditation, “The Icicle”), the poems prove to the reader again and again that there can be tenderness in irony, beauty in disillusionment. If Rothman can claim that “darkness is a spark of sunlight,” believe him, because these poems are proof positive of precisely that.
~ Marilyn L. Taylor
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
Wisconsin Poet Laureate, 2009-2010

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David J. Rothman is Director of the Poetry Concentration in the MFA at Western State Colorado University, and also teaches at the University of Colorado at Boulder, Denver University, and Lighthouse Writers Workshop of Denver. He is the author of three previous volumes of poetry, Dominion of Shadow, The Elephant’s Chiropractor (a Finalist for the Colorado Book Award), and Beauty at Night. Another volume of poems, Part of the Darkness, is forthcoming from Entasis and a further, Go Big, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press. He is the editor of The Geography of Hope: Poets of Colorado’s Western Slope. His essays on many subjects have appeared widely. He was co-founder and the first Executive Director of the Crested Butte Music Festival, and has served as director of a number of other arts and educational organizations. He lives in Boulder, Colorado, with his wife and two sons.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: White Violet Press
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 061575418X
• ISBN 13: 9780615754185
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 94
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