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Genre/Form: | Ausgabe |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Iain Haley Pollock |
ISBN: | 9780820339085 0820339083 |
OCLC Number: | 806677889 |
Description: | 78 Seiten |
Responsibility: | by Iain Haley Pollock. |
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Beyond the bracing intelligence in these poems, beyond the surges of joy and trouble, beyond the poet's awe in this split second, he plunges with imagination into the timeless work of loving witness, resonant with high style and the blues. Wherever Iain Pollock turns, the search is on, in history, art, family, in things on display and hidden in himself. What he finds he finds the art to celebrate with tenderness and wisdom.|If the ear is tuned to catch it, there is music in our blood. Train the eyes for nuance, you can trace the history of our skins. In Spit Back a Boy, his impressive first book, you can read the dance Iain Haley Pollock has had with time, location, family and their various repercussions. A lesser poet would freeze in complaint. If the spirit is generous, and the balance between living and letters match, a fine book of poems sings the author and the reader free.|Iain Haley Pollock's debut volume Spit Back A Boy. . . .is a shapeshifter that keeps saying, in so many different ways, how varied, how complex the African-American poetic idiom is, how complex the American poetic idiom is.|In his debut collection Spit Back a Boy, Iain Haley Pollock delivers an evocative and graceful body of work tangled in questions about maturity and playfulness, solitude and silence, race and representations of race and the ways in which we recognize what we value.|Pollack's poems are unforgettable. . . This poetic freedom is breathtaking and demands a careful reading and examination on first approach, then jumping on board for timeless journeys whose music propels one poem into the next. Read more...

