The Hatcheck Girl (Paperback)

Tony Whedon

ISBN 10: 0997452838 / ISBN 13: 9780997452839

Edité par Green Writers Press, VT, 2016

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Paperback. Tony Whedon's new book The Hatcheck Girl vividly describes border crossings where language, culture and states of consciousness collide. In these richly layered poems about jazz most of the musicians we meet are sidemen: few are famous, most are notorious. They're united, as he says in his opening poem "The Tradition of the New," by their devotion to the music and by their appetite for a note, a phrase to "make it new . . . over and over." Whedon is a poet of historical juxtaposition: in "The Peacocks" we meet both trumpet player Chet Baker and Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio on a lonely beach outside Naples. In "Head Wound" Whedon's narrator, an expat jazz musician who's suffered a head wound in WW II France, contemplates the beauty of late-14th Century illuminated manuscripts. Some poems in The Hatcheck Girl feature women Whedon's opera singer sister dying of cirrhosis in Manhattan, an aging torch singer in Jacksonville, a young, green female pianist in Paris struggling to survive in a male-dominated art form. Others depict the lives of musicians who scuffle for gigs in out-of-way clubs because they both love the music and don't know what else to do. Robert Pinsky has praised Tony Whedon's "masterful verbal music," and in The Hatcheck Girl Whedon, a jazz trombonist, is in command of the medium. His new collection is full of brilliant improvisational surprises. Tony Whedons new book The Hatcheck Girl vividly describes border crossings where language, culture and states of consciousness collide. In these richly layered poems about jazz most of the musicians we meet are sidemen: few are famous, most are notorious. Theyre united, as he says in his opening poem The Tradition of the New, by their devotion to the music and by their appetite for a note, a phrase to make it new .over and over. Whedon is a poet of historical juxtaposition: in The Peacocks we meet both trumpet player Chet Baker and Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio on a lonely beach outside Naples. In Head Wound Whedons narrator, an expat jazz musician whos suffered a head wound in WW II France, contemplates the beauty of late-14th Century illuminated manuscripts. Some poems in The Hatcheck Girl feature women Whedons opera singer sister dying of cirrhosis in Manhattan, an aging torch singer in Jacksonville, a young, green female pianist in Paris struggling to survive in a male-dominated art form. Others depict the lives of musicians who scuffle for gigs in out-of-way clubs because they both love the music and dont know what else to do. Robert Pinsky has praised Tony Whedons masterful verbal music, and in The Hatcheck Girl Whedon, a jazz trombonist, is in command of the medium. His new collection is full of brilliant improvisational surprises. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Hatcheck Girl (Paperback)
• Éditeur: Green Writers Press, VT
• Date de parution: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0997452838
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780997452839
• Reliure: Paperback
• État de l'article: new

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Synopsis

Tony Whedon s new book The Hatcheck Girl vividly describes border crossings where language, culture and states of consciousness collide. In these richly layered poems about jazz most of the musicians we meet are sidemen: few are famous, most are notorious. They re united, as he says in his opening poem The Tradition of the New, by their devotion to the music and by their appetite for a note, a phrase to make it new . . . over and over. Whedon is a poet of historical juxtaposition: in The Peacocks we meet both trumpet player Chet Baker and Italian Baroque painter Michelangelo Caravaggio on a lonely beach outside Naples. In Head Wound Whedon s narrator, an expat jazz musician who s suffered a head wound in WW II France, contemplates the beauty of late-14th Century illuminated manuscripts. Some poems in The Hatcheck Girl feature women Whedon s opera singer sister dying of cirrhosis in Manhattan, an aging torch singer in Jacksonville, a young, green female pianist in Paris struggling to survive in a male-dominated art form. Others depict the lives of musicians who scuffle for gigs in out-of-way clubs because they both love the music and don t know what else to do. Robert Pinsky has praised Tony Whedon s masterful verbal music, and in The Hatcheck Girl Whedon, a jazz trombonist, is in command of the medium. His new collection is full of brilliant improvisational surprises.

À propos de l'auteur

Tony Whedon iis the author of three books of poems and a prize-winning essay collection. He is a working trombone player and the leader of the poetry/jazz ensemble PoJazz. Along with Neil Shepard, he founded Green Mountains Review. He lives with his wife Suzanne in Montgomery, Vermont.