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Say Uncle

by Kay Ryan

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Synopses & Reviews

Review:

"The first thing you notice about her poems is an elbow-to-the-ribs playfulness." Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle.

Synopsis:

Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same hidden connections, the same slyness and almost gleeful detachment that has delighted readers of her earlier books. Compact, searching, and oddly beautiful, these poems, in the words of Dana Gioia, "take the shape of an idea clarifying itself." "A poetry collection that marries wit and wisdom more brilliantly than any I know.... Poetry as statement and aphorism is rarely heartbreaking, but reading these poems I find myself continually ambushed by a fundamental sorrow, one that hides behind a surface that interweaves sound and sense in immaculately interesting ways." — Jane Hirshfield, Common Boundary; "The first thing you notice about her poems is an elbow-to-the-ribs playfulness." — Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780802137173
Author:
Ryan, Kay
Publisher:
Grove Press
Location:
New York :
Subject:
American
Subject:
American - General
Subject:
Poetry
Subject:
Single Author / American
Subject:
Poetry-A to Z
Copyright:
2000
Edition Number:
1st ed.
Edition Description:
Trade Paper
Series Volume:
bk. 3
Publication Date:
20000831
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Language:
English
Pages:
80
Dimensions:
8.25 x 5.50 in 3.50 oz
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Product details 80 pages Grove Press - English 9780802137173 Reviews:
"Review" by , "The first thing you notice about her poems is an elbow-to-the-ribs playfulness."
"Synopsis" by ,
Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is filled with the same hidden connections, the same slyness and almost gleeful detachment that has delighted readers of her earlier books. Compact, searching, and oddly beautiful, these poems, in the words of Dana Gioia, "take the shape of an idea clarifying itself." "A poetry collection that marries wit and wisdom more brilliantly than any I know.... Poetry as statement and aphorism is rarely heartbreaking, but reading these poems I find myself continually ambushed by a fundamental sorrow, one that hides behind a surface that interweaves sound and sense in immaculately interesting ways." — Jane Hirshfield, Common Boundary; "The first thing you notice about her poems is an elbow-to-the-ribs playfulness." — Patricia Holt, San Francisco Chronicle.
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