The Dirt: Poems (Miami University Press Poetry)

Literature & Fiction

Van Winckel, Nance

Poetry

Miami Univ Pr

When the dirt is good, a small thing burrows and twists, and enlarges. Gossip becomes folktale, rumor becomes fable, narrators turn informants. There is dirt under the nails of those who speak in these poems. Common dirt, communal dirt. The dirt that lays us all low, and which receives us finally with its blessing of rot, commingling us in a slow dissolve.

The Dirt: Poems (Miami University Press Poetry Series)

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Selected Poems: 1965-1995 (Miami University Press Poetry) [Apr 01, 1995] Seidman, Hugh

Selected Poems: 1965-1995 (Miami University Press Poetry)

Seidman, Hugh

Since the publication of his marvelous debut volume, Anxious Latitudes, Ralph Angel has been admired by readers of contemporary poetry for the extraordinary abstract lyricism of his poems. There is a superb grace, a speculative intelligence, and a wry philosophical wisdom to Ralph Angel's poetry. There are few poets so accomplished at creating an elegant yet innovative and provocative voice. His poetic phrasings recall the startling and original jazz voicings of a whole generation of great musicians, from Billie Holiday to Miles Davis, and it is within this profoundly American tradition of the voice of the outsider that his poetry continues to resonate. Now, in Ralph Angel's new collection, Neither World, we find ourselves again in the presence of poetry that will move us ever closer to a new and renewed promise of the American sublime.

Neither World: Poems (Miami University Press Poetry Series)

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