The Blue Buick - New and Selected Poems (Paperback)

Gathering works from five of B. H. Fairchild's previous volumes stretching over thirty years, and adding twenty-six brilliant new poems, The Blue Buick showcases the career of a poet who represents "the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic" (The New York Times). Fairchild's poetry covers a wide range, both geographically and intellectually, though it finds its centre in the rural Midwest: in oilfields and dying small towns, in taverns, baseball fields, one-screen movie theatres and skies "vast, mysterious and bored." Ultimately, its cultural scope-where Mozart stands beside Patsy Cline, with Grunewald, Goedel and Rothko only a subway ride from the Hollywood films of the 1950s-transcends region and decade to explore the relationship of memory to the imagination and the mysteries of time and being. And finally there is the character of Roy Eldridge Garcia, a machinist/poet/philosopher who sees in the landscape and silence of the high plains the held breath of the earth, "as if we haven't quite begun to exist. That coming into being still going on."

General

Imprint:	W W Norton & Co Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 2016
Authors:	BH Fairchild
Dimensions:	211 x 140 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	352
ISBN-13:	978-0-393-35216-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-393-35216-1
Barcode:	9780393352160

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