This volume is selected by Maxine Kumin as one of five volumes published in 2003 in the National Poetry Series. Arranged in four parts - each associated with a particular Louisiana city - the poems in "Rhythm & Booze" trace the hardships and uncertainties, as well as the moments of unexpected sublimity, of a life lived in a continuous struggle between fresh starts and destructive old patterns. Mirroring the music of New Orleans, Kane's poems combine traditional form with improvisational flourishes. "Rhythm & Booze" charts her progress as she undertakes a number of journeys, from youth to experience, from blues bars to college classrooms, from city to country, from chaos to something approaching peace.

Rhythm & Booze: POEMS (National Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Kane, Julie

Poetry

University of Illinois Press

Arranged in four parts--each associated with a particular Louisiana city--the poems in Rhythm & Booze trace the hardships and uncertainties, as well as the moments of unexpected sublimity, of a life lived in a continuous struggle between fresh starts and destructive old patterns.  Mirroring the music of New Orleans, Kane's poems combine traditional form with improvisational flourishes. Rhythm & Booze charts her progress as she undertakes a number of journeys, from youth to experience, from blues bars to college classrooms, from city to country, from chaos to something approaching peace.

Voices of the American South

Voices of the American South is a comprehensive survey of pivotal works in the Southern literary tradition. The historical organization of the text, the lively and contextualized introductions and headnotes, and the inclusion of clustered selections inform readers about relevant themes of Southern literature, while providing the historically uninformed reader with various and interesting entry points into the text. Those interested in reading and learning more about southern literature.

History

Gardner, Sarah

Hardin, Joe Marshall

Disheroon-Green, Suzanne

Abney, Lisa

Castille, Philip Dubuisson

Ewell, Barbara C.

Menke, Pamela Glenn

Americas

Longman

Wickedly clever Julie Kane is our 21st-century Dorothy Parker. Boldly upbeat, sassily downbeat, she’s laugh-out-loud funny. In Paper Bullets the wry Kane serves wit to the lugubrious and fun to the platitudinous. There’s a bon mot here for every sophisticate and rich humor for all who’ve forgotten that poetry knows how to tap the funny bone. ~ Molly Peacock My ideal Ladies Poetry Group (if there were such a thing!) would consist of Emily Dickinson, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Wendy Cope. Non-participating onlookers might include Mary McCarthy, Pauline Kael, Gilda Radner, and Roseanne Barr—no guys allowed. Oh, to be a fly on that wall! Comes now Julie Kane, with full credentials and a bag of tricks ranging from couplets to limericks to triolets, with enough left over to feed the multitudes who have long been starved for a book of poetry that combines humor with wisdom, acid wit with a spoonful of sugar, and such a large portion of good will towards all that it makes me want to celebrate. Brava! ~ R.S. Gwynn

Paper Bullets

White Violet Press

Celebrated poet Julie Kane returns to her Boston Irish Catholic roots in this collection about mothers and daughters shaped by the forces of Irish history and Irish-­American culture. Mothers of Ireland confronts how the legacy of personal trauma gets passed down to subsequent generations, with a focus on women from her family history and their paths of both pain and endurance. Kane?s verse reverberates with the lives of her ancestors and the lasting impacts of famine, poverty, repressive religion, ethnic prejudice, and alcoholism. The poems are formal?villanelles, ghazals, sonnets, sestinas, and the like?but their language is fresh and rich with the sound of contemporary spoken English. Coming from a culture that values music, storytelling, and the oral poetic tradition, Kane uses rhyme and rhythm to move the body as well as the mind. Even at their darkest, these haunting poems flash with resilient Irish wit.

Mothers of Ireland: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)

LSU Press

The first full-length poetry collection by Julie Kane, whose second book (Rhythm &amp; Booze) won the 2002 National Poetry Series, judged by Maxine Kumin, and third book (Jazz Funeral) won the 2009 Donald Justice Poetry Prize, judged by David Mason. It came out from Pirogue Publishing, a regional small press in New Orleans and Paradis, Louisiana, in 1987. Back-Cover Blurbs: "The physical in Julie Kane's poetry is so intensely, humanly physical that it shines, a shining that attracts the feelings and lights the mind." -- A. R. Ammons "I like Julie Kane's graceful and mordant poems for their wit, poise, and fullness of feeling, their clarity and directness. Best of all I like the way that something can be seen shining through even the most melancholy of them--I think it may be the rapt happiness of the maker." -- William Matthews "Julie Kane's poems have at times the fierce intensity of childhood, and then the wit and affectionate toughness of a woman. But always they show an advanced and advancing craft. Her lines . . . leave an afterimage that becomes delight, in their directness, in their truth. Her gift for the telling detail is superb, and her knowledge of human paradox a gift to readers . . . I am moved with admiration." -- Robert Morgan "It's a wonderful book." -- George Starbuck From the Reviews: "Especially strong are Kane's poems with Louisiana settings . . . It seems as though Kane, with her New England background, is able somehow to look at Louisiana in a way that picks out details a native might miss . . . Julie Kane reminds us, with excellent craft, of the shoes and houseplants, songs and dreams, of which our lives are made." -- Glenn Swetman, Louisiana Literature "A native of the Northeast, Kane has lived in Louisiana for the past decade. This collection is a beautiful plume in the bedraggled culture bonnet of her adopted state." -- Richard Kilbourne, Jr., The Baton Rouge Sunday Advocate "Can any good thing come out of Louisiana, where reading poetry is a faux pas and writing it is damn near criminal? Julie Kane's first full-length collection--which houses poems that are indelible, edible, and simultaneously credible and incredible--answers with a hyperbolic affirmative . . . . Julie Kane revels in the dialectical swing of the world and invites her readers to join in the dance. If you enjoy poets who know their art, you'll want to own this wonderful book." -- Norman German, The Chiron Review "With praise from the likes of A. R. Ammons, William Matthews, and Robert Morgan gracing the back cover of Julie Kane's Body and Soul, I'm not sure what I can add . . . . There's great range in these 43 poems, greater than I can cover here. Julie Kane's off-the-wall imagery and gutsy sensitivity will take you back to the world, body and soul." -- Jorg, Small Press Review

Body and Soul

Pirogue Pub

Amid the chaotic fall of Saigon in April 1975 Capt. Kiem Do, deputy chief of staff for operations in the South Vietnamese Navy, secretly planned and quietly carried out the evacuation of thirty-five ships and some thirty thousand at-risk South Vietnamese. That disciplined retreat is only one of many little-known events of the war recalled in this revealing memoir, the first to be published in English by an officer of the South Vietnamese Navy. Also included are first-person accounts of skirmishes against the Binh Xuyen pirates, life with Diem and Madame Nhu, the foiled communist car-bomb attack on Saigon's naval headquarters during Tet, and the 1974 sea battle between China and South Vietnam. In addition to viewing particular events from a Vietnamese perspective, this book offers an intimate look at the human side of the war, at Vietnamese culture, and at the relationship between the men of the South Vietnamese Navy and their American counterparts - specifically, the naval advisers who crossed paths with Kiem.

Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War

Do, Kiem

Military

Naval Inst Pr

Jazz Funeral

Structured like the movements of a New Orleans jazz funeral, this all-sonnet collection deals with death, loss, war, disaster, the binding power of community, and the celebratory spirit that reemerges after all. In the words of poet and critic David Mason: “Part elegy for a city and a way of life, part meditation on mortality and grace, this book is wonderfully, defiantly alive.”

Story Line Press

Structured like the movements of a New Orleans jazz funeral, this all-sonnet collection deals with death, loss, war, disaster, the binding power of community, and the celebratory spirit that reemerges after all. In the words of poet and critic David Mason: "Part elegy for a city and a way of life, part meditation on mortality and grace, this book is wonderfully, defiantly alive."

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Rhythm & Booze: POEMS (National Poetry Series)

Rhythm & Booze: POEMS (National Poetry Series)

Voices of the American South

Paper Bullets

Mothers of Ireland: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)

Body and Soul

Counterpart: A South Vietnamese Naval Officer's War

Jazz Funeral

Jazz Funeral