Synopses & Reviews
Reading from:
A Legacy of Shadows and
News from Down to the Café. This CD includes ten tracks along with a a 36-page booklet on the poet and his craft.
Tracks Include: 1 Loading a Boar 2 Salvage Grain 3 Jan's Birthday 4 For Jan, with Love 5 Ugly 6 Mean 7 Willie and the Water Pipe 8 Benediction 9 The Twenty-one Gun Salute 10 from Driving and Drinking.
David Lee was the subject of a recent PBS documentary, The Pig Poet. Winner of the 1995 Western States Book Award, Lee has also been the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities. He lives in St. George, Utah.
Synopsis
Many book discussion groups relish the prospect of reading difficult novel or nonfiction work, but poetry still holds a degree of intimidation. Once good poetry is heard, however, most people feel compelled to read it.
The first four compact discs in Copper Canyon's new audio series feature poets reading from their own poetry and are intended to introduce new poetry readers to the joys of the genre. Designed with book discussion groups in mind -- but suited for beginners and avid poetry readers alike -- each recording is accompanied by a booklet discussing poetry, poetic forms, and the individual work of the poets featured in the recordings.
For customers new to poetry or for the most avid poetry reader, these recordings are a must.
Part storyteller, part country preacher, Lee's readings are dynamic performances. Features the stunning "Oil Well Fire" poem.
Synopsis
This audio guide to the poetry of David Lee allows readers to hear this inspired performer.
About the Author
David Lee, author of eight books of poetry, was Utah's first Poet Laureate. A former seminary candidate, semi-pro baseball player, and hog farmer, he has a Ph.D. with a concentration in Milton and is the recently retired head of the Languages and Literature department at Southern Utah University.