Overtime - Couverture souple

Millar, Joseph

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0910055742 ISBN 13 : 9780910055741

Editeur : Eastern Washington Univ Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Book by Millar Joseph

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Overtime, Joseph Millar's first book of poetry, both traditionally elegiac and formally unexpected-aims at the overlap between art and the everyday grind of work and single fatherhood. Here we find poems of loss and grief, alongside poems of working-class celebration that hum with the sound of wind in the ladder racks and miles of telephone wire. Overtime is a book of poetry whose chief concern is not art for its own sake but rather the artistic visions the everyday struggles of life provide when paid the right attention. A poet deeply sunk into William Carlos Williams' American Grain, Millar grounds his poems in the details and small mysteries of everyday life and labor. Whether the speaker is murmuring a song to the beloved in poems like ""Love Pirates"" or ""Listener,"" imagining the travails of a Native American war chief in ""Sitting Bull in Canada,"" or considering his own inevitable death in ""Heart Attack,"" Millar tells a story plainly, moving from lyric to narrative and back again in language charged with duende and force. As Yusef Komunyakaa has written, ""Millar is a poet we can believe.""

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Eastern Washington Univ Pr
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0910055742
• ISBN 13: 9780910055741
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 61
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible