Biographie de l'auteur :
Jeffrey DeLotto, Professor of English in the School of Arts and Sciences at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, teaches writing, Shakespeare, and Modern British literature. A native of Florida, he has also taught writing and literature at Texas Tech University, at Yarmouk University (in Jordan), and as a Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Plovdiv in Bulgaria. His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies, and he has published a chapbook entitled Voices at the Door, the Southwest Poets Series winner from the Maverick Press. He also serves as Poetry Editor for the international on-line journal AmarilloBay.org, a grower of vegetables, and skipper on the mutinous family sailboat.
Présentation de l'éditeur :
From Jim Bowie preparing to die at the Alamo to a dung beetle rolling home, from mallard ducks in tweed to a church-goer afraid to be found, from snakeskins to serial killers, fl oods to grey foxes, Je rey DeLotto's poems fi nd light and darkness, calm and storm, ant and Arab suq equally fascinating. Taking his title from Keats' ideal of a poet as chameleon, DeLotto inhabits the world large and small in these collected poems, seeing empathy as the essence of understanding.
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