Gypsy Wisdom: New & Selected Poems - Couverture souple

Minor, William

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1935530976 ISBN 13 : 9781935530978

Editeur : Park Place Publications, 2015

Synopsis

In Gypsy Wisdom: New & Selected Poems, William Minor transforms and transcends subject matter (homage to parents, marital love, the death of friends, self-fulfillment, failure and success, a critique of one’s era, conceptions of heaven, aging, last words—and even such humble items as Q-tips) into skillfully crafted poems that will stand the test of time. The book ends with a brilliant, grateful, laugh-provoking parody of and homage to Francois Villon’s “The Testament,” in which William Minor contemplates the “gifts” he would give back to the world—one of which is Gypsy Wisdom: New & Selected Poems.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

William Minor was originally trained as a visual artist (University of Michigan, Pratt Institute and U.C.-Berkeley), and exhibited woodcut prints and paintings at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, and other museums and galleries. Attracted by the “multimedia” work of William Blake, e.e. cummings, Kenneth Patchen and Shiko Munakata (and the voice of Dylan Thomas), he began to write poetry as a graduate student in Language Arts at San Francisco State, producing his first book containing poems and woodcut prints, Pacific Grove, in 1974. Bill has, since that time, published six more books of poetry: For Women Missing or Dead, Goat Pan, Natural Counterpoint (with Paul Oehler), Poet Santa Cruz: Number 4, Some Grand Dust (Chatoyant Press; he was a finalist for the Benjamin Franklin Award), and now: Gypsy Wisdom: New & Selected Poems (Park Place Publications). His poetry has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, as has his short fiction—-which was selected for inclusion in Best Little Magazine Fiction (NYU Press) and The Colorado Quarterly Centennial Edition. A one-act play, Contacts, was performed at Monterey Peninsula College in California, and then published in The Bellingham Review. A jazz writer with over 150 articles to his credit, Bill has also published three books on music: Unzipped Souls: A Jazz Journey Through the Soviet Union (Temple University Press), Monterey Jazz Festival: Forty Legendary Years (Angel City Press; Bill served as scriptwriter for the Warner Bros. film documentary based on the latter, same title as book), and Jazz Journeys to Japan: The Heart Within (University of Michigan Press). A professional musician since the age of sixteen, Bill set poems from For Women Missing or Dead to music and recorded a CD—Bill Minor & Friends (on which he plays piano, tenor guitar, and sings). A second CD, Mortality Suite, offers original poems and music. Bill was also commissioned by the Historic Sandusky Foundation to write a suite of original music and voice script based on a married couple’s exchange of letters throughout the Civil War: Love Letters of Lynchburg. In 2007, Bill published a comic novel: Trek: Lips, Sunny, Pecker and Me, and in 2012, The Inherited Heart: An American Memoir. In May, 2011, Bill was “first grand prize winner” in a national essay contest, “What Music Means to Me,” sponsored by RPMDA (Retail print Music Dealers Association).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Park Place Publications
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1935530976
• ISBN 13: 9781935530978
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 102
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