A power ballad was a hair metal band's voyage into the softer side of rock, compromising to the integrity of the genre, but genuine and trailblazing. So too is Caples' Power Ballads. His poems and prose pieces are bizarre and hilarious, in which Dylan and Bowie sit alongside the French surrealists, with the occasional turn into heartfelt romanticism.
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Weight: 297g
Dimensions: 152 x 215mm
Publication Date: 22 Sep 2016
Publisher: Wave Books
Publication City/Country: United States
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781940696379
About Garrett Caples
Garrett Caples is the author of Retrievals (2014) The Garrett Caples Reader (1999) Complications (2007) and Quintessence of the Minor (2010). He is the co-editor of The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia (2013) Particulars of Place (2015) by Richard O. Moore and Incidents of Travel in Poetry: New and Selected Poems (2016) by Frank Lima. He is an editor at City Lights Books and curates the Spotlight Poetry Series there. He was also a contributing writer to the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has written articles and blogged for the Poetry Foundation and occasionally blogs for blogcitylights.com. He has a Ph.D. in English from the University of California Berkeley and lives in San Francisco.