Choruses
Poems
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1999-10-01 - Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, USA, Minnesota
Language
English
Word Count
27,750 words, Guess
Page Count
111 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL42497M
- ISBN-139781566890908
- ISBN-10156689090X
- OCLC Control Number41528013
- OCLC Control Numberchorusespoems0000trou
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number99035487
- Goodreads726472
- LibraryThing1039413
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3570.R63 C48 1999
Description
Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogues, and architectural abstracts in his latest volume of poetry, withChoruses. Merging traditional poetic form with contemporary content, Troupe fashions "words & sounds that build bridges toward a new tongue" , as he writes in "Song," an ars poetica. Only Troupe could write a sestina chronicling the mass suicide of Heaven's Gate, or a villanelle for Michael Jordan: "rising up in time, michael jordan hangs like an ikon, suspended in space / / his eyes two radar screens screwed like nails into the mask of his face." A masterful technician, Troupe experiments with free verse as well, repeating the same words in three different line-break configurations in "Images: Three Variations of Shape & Form." From haiku to tonka, from Mark McGwire to Sammy Sosa, from bebop to hip hop, these choruses "become sound tracks lifted off a poet's tongue, / / syllables, within moments, are transformed into song..."
Subjects
Genres
- Poetry.
Other Editions
- Choruses: Poems
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