Alicejamesbooks (5 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Of The Moon Reflected Fire and its subject, the Vietnam War, poet James Tate writes: These are trenchant, wrenching poems. With artistry and honesty they perform an inquest into war and its corrosive after effects.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. We Have Gone to the Beach is a collection of lyric and narrative poems, many of them set in Southern California, in which the disquieting aspects of contemporary suburban culture are explored, often in a darkly humerous light. At the heart of the book is a cycle of poems about specific individuals whose lives enact the states of social and spiritual crisis shared by the author.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. B.H. Fairchild's The Art of the Lathe is a collection of poems centering on the working-class world of the Midwest, the isolations of small-town life, and the possibilities and occasions of beauty and grace among the machine shops and oil fields of rural Kansas. . . James Joyce's Stephen Dedalus spoke of forging the conscience of his race in the smithy of his soul; in the dusty light of a Kansas machine shop, B.H. Fairchild has performed similar magic. -- R.S. GwynnB.H. Fairchild brings sympathetic insight to the people the machinists, welders, and farmers he writes of. And like a fine novelist, he has a gift for focusing on those moments when lives constrained by psychological or economic circumstances are touched by beauty and significance. -- Timothy SteeleWith elegance and restrained subtlety, Mr. Fairchild interweaves topics that become something like musical themes, including the central theme of machine work . . .Anyone who can lay claim to the authorship of this much excellent poetry wins my unqualified and grateful admiration. -- from the introduction by Anthony Hecht.…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. E.J. Miller Laino is a tough, honest poet. She is liable to say anything. Her poems are startling, from their frank treatment of sex and death to the abundance of hard, true metaphors. This is more than a confrontation with daily pain and fear, however; these poems celebrate survival, the durability of family, the liberation of unheard voices, especially female and working-class voices. The poems of E.J. Miller Laino transcend, with all the power and beauty of flight. --Mart n Espada.…

First edition. 62 pp. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original. Dated (11/5/95) and INSCRIBED by Jones. Her first book.