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alliteration and sonic texture
allusive modern poetry
armor imagery in poetry
Asian poetic influences
associative imagery in poetry
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avant-garde poetics
bold poetic structures
Brooklyn urban poems
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childhood memory poetry
colloquial emotional poetry
conceptual approaches to poetry
contemporary American poetry
contemporary lyric craft
cross-cultural poetic technique
debut poetry collection
disillusionment themes
enjambment techniques
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experimental lyric sequences
experimental stanza forms
Florida poems
formal invention in poetry
hesitation and tension in verse
image-based lyricism
imagist influence
innovative poetic form
intertextual poetry
inventive sonnet forms
language-driven verse
line break experimentation
literary formalism revival
lyric experimentation
Manhattan poetry settings
minimalist poetic resolution
modern East Asian minimalism
modernist influence
music of language
nature and rural imagery
non-narrative poetry
notational lyric style
Paris poetry sequences
pattern and structure in poems
poetic architecture
poetic homage traditions
postmodern verse styles
present-tense lyric writing
regional Midwest and New England imagery
Rhode Island childhood poems
rhythm-centered poetics
rhythmic verse experiments
sestina innovations
sound patterning poetry
sound-driven verse
spatial poetry design
spiritual and philosophical tension
stress-based metrics
syllabic poetry
tension between form and meaning
travel-inspired poems
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urban landscape poetry
Vietnam war-era imagery in verse
Product details
- ISBN 9781558494015
- Weight: 124g
- Dimensions: 163 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 18 Apr 2003
- Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this striking debut collection, Michael Carlson offers poems that combine the concrete and the musical, while embodying a tendency toward contradiction. He writes by working with rhythms, structures, images, associational leaps, and an obsession with the sound of words, as opposed to narrative. The book begins, ""A thing wants to pounce but can't,"" and this spirit of hesitation continues throughout the volume. The first section of the book contains heavily rhythmic poems measured sometimes by syllable, sometimes by stress, dealing with rural landscapes, a struggle with disillusionment, and a reconciliation of knowledge and belief. The second section confronts the terrain and people of Carlson's childhood in Rhode Island, using longer sentences, riskier enjambments, and a more colloquial and emotional language. The poems in the third section - which range from Manhattan to Florida, Vietnam, and Paris - share a tendency to be more fantastic and are formal in weird ways. They include an homage to Ezra Pound borrowing the vocabulary of his first book and the syntax of his last, a nod to John Donne borrowing some of his stanza shapes, a sonnet whose constraint is that each of its fourteen lines contains a piece of armor, and a sestina composed of four syllable lines with four end words that rhyme. In the fourth section, Carlson returns to Brooklyn, speaks from the present, and resolves his stances in a brief notational way that is reminiscent of Chinese poetry.
