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Cement Guitar (Juniper Prize for Poetry)
Michael Carlson
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Description for Cement Guitar (Juniper Prize for Poetry)
Paperback. In this debut collection, Michael Carlson offers poems that combine the concrete and the musical, while embodying a tendency toward contradiction. He writes by working with rhythms, structures, images and the sounds of words, and the volume covers many forms and personal subjects. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 163 x 7. Weight in Grams: 122.
In this striking debut collection, Michael Carlson offers poems that combine the concrete and the musical, while embodying a tendency toward contradiction. He writes by working with rhythms, structures, images, associational leaps, and an obsession with the sound of words, as opposed to narrative. The book begins, ""A thing wants to pounce but can't,"" and this spirit of hesitation continues throughout the volume. The first section of the book contains heavily rhythmic poems measured sometimes by syllable, sometimes by stress, dealing with rural landscapes, a struggle with disillusionment, and a reconciliation of knowledge and belief. The second section confronts the ... Read more
In this striking debut collection, Michael Carlson offers poems that combine the concrete and the musical, while embodying a tendency toward contradiction. He writes by working with rhythms, structures, images, associational leaps, and an obsession with the sound of words, as opposed to narrative. The book begins, ""A thing wants to pounce but can't,"" and this spirit of hesitation continues throughout the volume. The first section of the book contains heavily rhythmic poems measured sometimes by syllable, sometimes by stress, dealing with rural landscapes, a struggle with disillusionment, and a reconciliation of knowledge and belief. The second section confronts the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781558494015
SKU
V9781558494015
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