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Things are Happening (Paperback, 1st ed)
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Things are Happening (Paperback, 1st ed)
Series: APR Honickman 1st Book Prize
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Loot Price R439
Discovery Miles 4 390
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Poetry. Winner of the APR/Honickman First Book Prize, this is the
first book put out by the American Poetry Review, selected and with
an introduction by Gerald Stern. Five long poems tell, among other
things, my story, the bullfighter's story, Old Watermelon Hands's
story, a father's story, a son's story, your story-our stories.
What is certain is that the disappearance/of anything is dreadful,
stuffed with anxiety./That the unbalanced life is far worse/than
the good or bad lives./That the tragic and comic dreams/of falling
and climbing/are more desirable than the dreams/of mirrors and
puzzles (from Purple Heart Highway). Beckman's poems fall and
climb, both thematically and formally. Joshua Beckman's line
breaks: are the lines, sensations, account as if overlapping thrown
forward as by a speaker who becomes breathless in the extension of
the sentence] sometimes to minute, concentrated platelets as
extension by slight disparities...-Leslie Scalapino. If you were a
scientist/you would understand things differently/the m
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