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Classic Rough News (Phoenix Poets)by Kenneth Fields
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:With a half-dozen books of poetry published to date, Kenneth Fields distills some forty years of teaching and writing about poetry into Classic Rough News, a collection of fresh sonnets and sonnet-like lyrics that attests to both Fields's skills as a writer and the inexhaustible possibilities of the form. Classic Rough News follows a skeptical, cosmopolitan, intelligent, poetic presence aware that its carefully constructed veneer could crumble at any moment. In poems that mine interior dialogue for the discovery of great truths, Fields conveys feelings of awkwardness, incompleteness, conflict, and insanity-all in finely crafted verse. Ironic and skeptical, the voice in these poems records the flux of the mind, ruefully acknowledging how easy it is to deceive oneself with mixed emotions. Fully mature and unconcerned about impressions, Classic Rough News is grounded in erudition and humor, revealing how tradition and talent can push one another in unexpected directions. Synopsis:The poems in Classic Rough News are grounded in erudition and humor, revealing how tradition and talent can push one another in unexpected directions.
About the AuthorKenneth Fields is professor of English and creative writing at Stanford University. Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Separate Camp In the Place of Stories In the Wain Along the Watchtower The Last Infirmity The Daily Mirror The Art of Surprise Eyewhite Nightlight The Company And Company Kept Going Out Realizations Imprisoned Lover Singing Freedom The Interior Castle On the Bus Fair Nice Pieces, or Burton Makes His Move At the Laundromat Here Nor There The Passive Voice On the Verge A Short History In the Name of the Queen Royal Burton A Country Story Voices of Silence, or The Camaraderie of Influence Apology The Narrow Road to the North "Into the World of Light" Daggers & Patchwork Quilts The Rules of the Game Powerhouse Breathless Torch Singer Early Autumn Right Now Winding Up No Moon at All Arkansas Stone Medium The Bookworm Dreams of Toughboy Poetry Under the Lamplight The Invariable Paths Being of Sound Mind Phantom Pain Among the Mysteries Cutting His Losses Tangled The Break Battle Review Nocturne Burton in Pieces Ripple Effect Wet Work Addressee Unknown The Teaching in His Twenty-seventh Year The Regret of Heraclitus Of the Spheres Burton in Heaven Burton at Yoga Narcissus at Ninety Around La Salamandre In Another Country From the Highest Tower Opening Line The Voice of the Oracle The Hinge More Tender, and Everywhere Open Before Sleep Poetic What Our Readers Are SayingBe the first to add a comment for a chance to win!Product Details
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