Dark Glasses - Couverture souple

Hendrickson, Dan

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1938237218 ISBN 13 : 9781938237218

Editeur : Flat Sole Studio, 2017

Synopsis

Dark Glasses is a collection of modern poetry from Dan Hendrickson, an author forever trapped between the future and the past. Hendrickson cut his teeth in the poetry business by pulling on a pair of prescription sunglasses and writing four books of post-modern poetry under his pen name, Henry Rifle. These books were a fusion of absurdist comedy, jazz poetry and low-rent philosophy. Dark Glasses builds on this and attempts to sum up the experience of and all the reasons for adopting a pseudonym in the first place; in addition to what was gained and what was lost.

Behind dark glasses, Hendrickson came to understand who he was, both as a poet and a human being. That apprenticeship taught him many things about who he was and who he wasn't. As he writes in Dark Glasses: "It takes a long time for a negative to turn into a color print. I like to think I'm almost there."

Furthermore, Dark Glasses raises the stakes considerably, moving Hendrickson's poetry from random observations about the state of the world and witty asides into matters of state, philosophy and personal identity. Vision is the overarching theme of the book and it's meant to serve as a challenge to others to look at the world differently, and by doing so to perhaps find ways to see themselves differently as well.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The author's given name is Dan Hendrickson. As a young adult, he opted to pull on a pair of prescription sunglasses and adopt another name: Henry Rifle. That worked well enough, but only up to a point. Under that name, he wrote and self-published four books of poetry (Shooting Gallery, Bullet Train, A Bullet West and Ballistics Report). Hendrickson, on the other hand, has only written (Slacker!) The Portland Stories (also self-published), a book of short fiction. That collection was originally titled Clean Shorts. Hendrickson is now middle-aged, with a blizzard gray beard. He's a sedate and meditative fellow, one prone to introspection. Henry Rifle is probably a little more fun, but by turns morose, often bordering on maudlin. About life, Hendrickson will only say "Over time, our borders are erased." He likes Gordon Sumner, Milo Bloom and Georgia O'Keefee. He lives in the Twin Cities and is married with two children. He's also aware that 'granite carrot' (see page 115) sounds phallic in nature. He honestly doesn't care.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Flat Sole Studio
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1938237218
• ISBN 13: 9781938237218
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 138
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible