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The Hatcheck Girl: Poems
Tony Whedon
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Description for The Hatcheck Girl: Poems
Paperback. Num Pages: 116 pages, colour illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 147 x 210 x 11. Weight in Grams: 210.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Green Writers Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
210 g
Number of Pages
116
Place of Publication
VT, United States
ISBN
9780997452839
SKU
V9780997452839
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99-29
About Tony Whedon
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.
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