1999 AWP Winner Edward Kleinschmidt Mayes carouses-playfully, deliciously-through the Italian countryside with his latest collection of poems. Like Hesiod's Works and Days, Mayes's collection explores the art of living and the transformations of one's life while working the land as a farmer. In his hand, the estatic and elegiac meet, shifting from a wide angle lens to the immediacy of the kitchen table, from Newton's revelations to the death of his parents. Written as an abecedarius, each poem's title begins with a different letter of the Italian alphabet, from Ago (needle) to Zappa (hoe). Often beginning a poem on the word that ended the last, he strings his readers along on denotation and double meaning-slight detours that take us from here to there, from Ovid shouting at his dog to our eternal quarrel with time. We follow this poet and his words, delighting in the movement, continually transported by sudden evocations of emotion that hit close to the heart. Mayes, known for his complex play with linguistic roots and for hard-driving tensile forms, extends his reach into the Italian language. As he farms his little plot of Tuscan soil, he introduces Italian phrases with a sense of wonder and pleasure, reminding us of our attraction for the word-imagination made flesh. He comes to realize that his "fields are poetry and olives" and his furrows and lines are seeded with Dante, and Virgil, Robert Johnson and Jussi Bjorling.

Works and Days (Pitt Poetry Series)

Literature & Fiction

Kleinschmidt, Edward

Mayes, Edward Kleinschmidt

Kleinschmidt, Mayes

Poetry

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

First Language (Juniper Prize for Poetry)

University of Massachusetts Press

This book is the winner of the 1989 Juniper Prize, the annual poetry award sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press. The poems in First Language do what Keats said poems must do: "surprise by a fine excess." Edward Kleinschmidt's words ricochet and deflect on their way to and from the heart. As the title suggests, these poems work from the source, that area of language, memory, and experience behind the operative meaning of words. Kleinschmidt dives into the layered implications of words for their limitless possibilities, to places that even those words had forgotten they had access to. He does so with a playful, astute intelligence and originality. He is the wild card in any deck of contemporary poets.

Review Animal Magnetism Antagonisms Breakage And Damage Consider / Desire The Dead Fathers And Mothers Departure Tax Dna Full, Loud, Dead Cousins Inside And Outside Rooms The Next Day A Poem You Might Have Written While Ploughing, 1925 Possibilities Of Love The Prime Mover Red Telephone Near The Davenport Sickness Unto Death Sleeptalking Time Is Nothing In Itself Twelve Hours On The Tv University Of Iowa Hospital, 1976 When And Where I Am Visualized Winter Fathers, 1963 Without Thinking The World Without -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Magnetism

Heyeck Pr

Bodysong

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