作品情報

短い詩の連なりが、夢と日常のあいだにある余韻をすくい上げる。

短詩の集積が、時間の流れと個人的な記憶を音楽的なリズムで結び直す。

書籍情報

出版社

Creative Arts Book Co

発売日

2001-04-01

ページ数

152ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

16.51 x 1.27 x 22.86 cm

ISBN-13

9780887393730

ISBN-10

088739373X

価格

9808 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Literature & Fiction/Poetry/American

In this latest collection, Al Young demonstrates why his poetry is loved and followed worldwide. At a time when most American poets are writing what Lawrence Ferlinghetti calls "a kind of prose masquerading in the typography of poetry," Al Young sings. His ear for music never lets him forget that the body is the boom-box of poetry. A master of dramatic monologue, Young continues to work in the many voices and forms that distinguish his work. Rare among contemporary poets, he almost never uses the pronoun "I" to refer to himself. His contempt for the unremitting arrogance of the confessional mode is hardly a secret. Like poets across the ages, Young is grounded and experienced in the pride and prejudice of his own times, and yet he can jump right over the moon and straight at the sun. Whether sonnetizing love or loss, laughing at smug social presumptions, condemning CIA drug deals, the thriving prison industry, bio-tech food, greed in a darkening stockocracy, or celebrating eternal verities, Al Young writes with spirit, imagination, and hope.

The author of several books of poetry, AL YOUNG is also a novelist and essayist. He is the recipient of NEA, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships as well as the PEN/Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction and the PEN/USA Award for Non-Fiction.

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