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Playful Song Called Beautiful
John Blair
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Description for Playful Song Called Beautiful
Paperback. Num Pages: 102 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 136.
Playful Song Called Beautiful ranges far into the intersections of faith and scientific thought, places where “there is no stranger who is / stranger than you, no / familiar who’s more / familiar.” In poems that are either formally rhymed and metered or written in syllabically structured three-line stanzas, Blair wanders among universal orders and failures of desire, where the unlikeliness of any of us being who we are, what we are, where we are forces us to consider—and reconsider—the possibilities of belief and meaning. Blair’s poems are elegant and earthy, sometimes profane, and sometimes lovingly playful.
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Playful Song Called Beautiful ranges far into the intersections of faith and scientific thought, places where “there is no stranger who is / stranger than you, no / familiar who’s more / familiar.” In poems that are either formally rhymed and metered or written in syllabically structured three-line stanzas, Blair wanders among universal orders and failures of desire, where the unlikeliness of any of us being who we are, what we are, where we are forces us to consider—and reconsider—the possibilities of belief and meaning. Blair’s poems are elegant and earthy, sometimes profane, and sometimes lovingly playful.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Iowa Press United States
Number of pages
102
Condition
New
Number of Pages
102
Place of Publication
Iowa, United States
ISBN
9781609383992
SKU
V9781609383992
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About John Blair
John Blair’s work has appeared in literary journals such as Poetry, the New York Quarterly, the Sewanee Review, the Antioch Review, and New Letters. His poetry collection The Green Girls won the 2003 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize, and his short story collection American Standard was awarded the 2002 Drue-Heinz Literature Prize. Blair is a professor of American literature and ... Read more
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