Contributions

  • Adrienne Rich - Introduction

Publication

2001-09-01 - Distribution by Copper Canyon Press/Consortium, Philadelphia, USA, Pennsylvania

Language

English

Word Count

18,750 words, Guess

Page Count

75 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • LibraryThing2439668
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001132035
  • OCLC Control Number53084112
  • Better World Books9780966339574

Classifications

  • DDC811/.6
  • LCCPS3616.A9575 P38 2001
  • LCCPS3616.A9575P38 2001
and 1 more
  • LCCPS3616.A85 P37 2001

Alternate Titles

  • Paraph of bone and other kinds of blue

Description

2001 Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, chosen by Adrienne Rich. As its title suggests, Ed Pavlic’s *Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue* seeks a glow at the deeper end of the spectrum, an exuberant flourish at the core of who we are. The poems, at once, vamp and whisper the supple harmony and lush dissonance of human connections, intimate and erotic, psychological, historical, familial, cultural.

Description

In her introduction Adrienne Rich describes Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue as "a fully conceived book, speaking as a whole from the first lines to the last. ... Mr. Pavlic has listened closely to our most profound American art, the blues and jazz, and that music has not only helped him achieve poetic form but allowed him to explore a mesh of experience extraneous to literary theories. ... This is intimate and soulful work, breathing, brushing, and tonguing its instrument." In response to Charlie Parker's theory of art, "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn", Ed Pavlic breathes exuberant life into his poetry through rigorous attention to overlapping facets of language -- visual, tonal, rhythmic.

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  • Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of BlueHardcoverDistribution by Copper Canyon Press/Consortium2001-09-01

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