Every Marred Thing: A Time in America - Couverture souple

Reardon, Patrick

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1956921486 ISBN 13 : 9781956921489

Editeur : Lavender Ink, 2025

Synopsis

With echoes of Walt Whitman and Alan Ginsberg, Every Marred Thing: A Time in America pulses with the chaos and cacophony of 21st century life and with the heartbeat of every soul walking the nation's streets, plowing its fields, stacking its garbage and sitting in McDonald's munching on an Egg McMuffin. This is America as a beautiful wasteland, as a howl of faith and hope and confusion. These poems embrace every misfit, outsider, lost soul, sinner and saint, sidewalk preacher, despairing heart, pompous suit, bleacher prophetess, tender shoot, sacred hobo and silly God-clown. In Every Marred Thing, Matthew, Mark, Luke and John play in the String Bean Band, weed trees take over Interstate 90 near Janesville, the Tribune rewrites the Bible, and "fireflies slash/a dogma across/backyard dark,/prophets of light/from light." And what answers there are can be found "in the sparrow's hollow bone" and in the sound of "The Red Line el train,/prayer wheels in the dark."

"These poems take you on a contemporary American journey, at times reminiscent of the sweeping self-revelation, music, and open-ended landscapes of Walt Whitman, and in other moments calling on the grit and dissonance of the Beats and free form jazz. These poems don’t shy away from what hurts and what’s ugly about being in this country now."
--Jessica Kennison, co-founder, New Orleans Writers Workshop

"Whether he is writing from a table at a McDonald's, a window seat on the Chicago El or a church basement, Patrick T. Reardon reminds us in these poems that the sacred often accompanies the profane, the mystical is found in the mundane. In language that is at times bizarre and Biblical, eye-opening and enigmatic, he offers us a window into what it means to be alive in America in the 21st century. I, for one, am grateful for this fresh new poetic voice, an acute observer of the human condition, a poet repeatedly 'recording enigmas.'"
--Judith Valente, author of Inventing An Alphabet, Discovering Moons and How To Be A Contemplative

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lavender Ink
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1956921486
• ISBN 13: 9781956921489
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 116
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible