Murabito stephen (14 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Following The Oswego Fugues and Communion of Asiago, Stephen Murabito consummates his trilogy for a former time and place: the 1960s and the West Eighth Street neighborhood of Oswego, New York, where people still carry the strong scents and accents of old countries. These lovely narrative poems- inflected with the 'home ache' that is nostalgia's English translation-lament the loss of the local everywhere. As testament and elegy, they demonstrate the wages of trading 'bad cheddar for good Gargonzola,' but by writing, Murabito redeems even that defeat. Julia Spicher Kasdorf MFA Program Director, Penn State University Stephen Murabito's new collection, Lowering the Body, vividly brings to life a time, the 1960s, and place, upstate New York, that is lost to history, but beautifully rendered in these poems. As seen through the eyes of a child-observer whose Italian-American father runs one of those corner grocery stores that began disappearing by the end of that decade, the lives of an extended family, friends, and colorful neighbors are lovingly detailed. One hilarious and trenchant poem, 'My Mother Joins the Hippies,' portrays a moment in the community when protest of the Viet Nam War and women's rights accidentally met in the rural north: 'Mrs. Berlin, Mrs. Ferraro, and Mrs. Grimaldi joined the hippies' protesting that a pregnant teacher who is 'showing' has lost her job, Mother among the women joining the march and 'Carrying the grocery stamper higher and higher like some kind of baton.' In the heartbreaking 'Burying Cousin Peter,' the grieving father of the soldier son who died in Viet Nam beats 'a man up onto his front porch/ leaving him to bleed/ Into the last green of that year's tomatoes' and then gives his son's Cadillac to the man by way of apology. One thinks of today's lost sons and daughters, to which this poem relates. Murabito has a fine ear for spoken language, and an impeccable sense of the quotidian and the moral. This tender portrait of a backwater town registering on a daily level the impact of the great social changes of the 1960s is rich with narrative insight and at times ribald, life-affirming, Felliniesque humor. Cynthia Hogue Author of The Incognito Body and Flux.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Food, family, and music are the central figures this collection of poetry written with broad humor and warm storytelling that invites the reader to Rtaste, hear, and see.

Zustand: New. KlappentextAs seen through the eyes of a child-observer whose Italian-American father runs a corner grocery store in the 1960s, the lives of an extended family, friends, and colorful neighbors are lovingly detailed.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Chasing Saint George, Stephen Murabito creates a cast of rich, memorable characters. While these stories sparkle with small everyday wonders and mysteries, loves and desires, they're also operatic in the best sense of the word, soaring with grand, genuine passion. Murabito tells his tales with great warmth and humor, and with a big, big heart.-Jim Daniels, author of Having a Little Talk With Capital P Poetry In Chasing Saint George, Stephen Murabito displays the rare gift of making readers laugh and cry at the same time. These sharply-written tales are populated by odd, yet familiar characters-a wayward Saint Bernard, a disgruntled bartender, a philosophical restaurant kitchen worker, a group of stubborn 'rosary ladies,' and women who will 'stay inside all day Saturday and make homemade pasta . . . and those who won't.' Murabito's playful voice lends humor and pathos to the bleak landscapes of upstate New York and southwestern Pennsylvania. His witty and engaging collection is sure to please all who seek good, old-fashioned storytelling.-Rita Ciresi, author of Pink Slip and Sometimes I Dream in Italian Masterfully written, Stephen Murabito's story collection is a chase for meaning in work, love, life, and in God, a chase that bolts and dodges and dares to lead us closer to ourselves. In this book of wonders, there's no turning back.-Paola Corso, author of Catina's Haircut and Giovanna's 86 Circles Stephen Murabito, in his beautiful book of stories, Chasing Saint George, fleshes out a world of impressionistic operatic sweep that evokes nonetheless the heartbreaking sepia of the documentarian. Murabito's prowess as a poet is evident in every syllable. His ear is exquisite, his attention to detail and nuance utterly precise. Chasing Saint George is a book of practiced wit, abiding love, the tattered glory of ordinary unforgettable people engaged in their daily, often absurd, yet absolutely necessary rituals. What happens to them is astonishing. That Murabito has seen them so clearly and delivered them to us with such unflinching clear-eyed devotion is even more so.-Joseph Bathanti, author of Restoring Sacred Art.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Oswego Fugues is a cogent attempt by one of the strongest of younger contemporary American poets to pursue nothing less than a paradigm shift beyond postmodernity, beyond the poststructural, taking into account the metaphysical and philosophical paradigms which came before, dramatizing the individual and collective human quest for vision, voice, verity. ¿Vince Gotera, Editor of the North American Review Postlude, page xxixThe lives we live are polyphonic, Stephen Murabito argues eloquently in The Oswego Fugues. He composes a vivid and stirring music of place sung by voices that perform in counterpoint until a moment of harmonic confluence is reached. This startlingly ambitious novel in verse, devoted to the principle that ¿words / can give birth to a soul,¿ proves that Stephen Murabito is a talent the world must watch¿and hear.¿David Citino, Poet Laureate of Ohio State UniversityPlace, folk, memory: all speak of this tender, passionate weaving of voices, the living and the dead. In compelling imagery and language, Murabito has brilliantly caught the ways the voices of the past continue to shape us with their ¿inaccurate stories¿ as we return to them over and over in our journey from ¿sound to light.¿ Reading these fugues is to receive a grace, to be part of a celebration of longing and love.¿Jo McDougall, Author of Dirt and Satisfied with Havoc Autumn House PressStephen Murabitös The Oswego Fugues is a brilliant, ambitious book, the work of a mature, confident poet. Stylistically rich and varied, this beautiful poem is full of tender memories juxtaposed against the hard edges of hard lives. This is a work of deep faith and imagination. Of faith in the imagination. Of a poet trying to preserve Oswego, a place he loves, and the people who live and die there. These meditations on memory and loss often turn into soaring incantatory flights of lyric passion, elegiac and sweet.¿Jim Daniels, Author of Show and Tell: New and Selected Poems University of Wisconsin Press.…

Zustand: Used. pp. xvi + 334.

Zustand: New. KlappentextFood, family, and music are the central figures this collection of poetry written with broad humor and warm storytelling that invites the reader to Rtaste, hear, and see.

Zustand: New.

Zustand: Used. pp. xvi + 334.

Zustand: New.