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Author_R. M. Ryan
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Product details
- ISBN 9780807136898
- Weight: 127g
- Dimensions: 140 x 218mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2010
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Vaudeville in the Dark is R. M. Ryan's dance to the music of our times, his search for salvation in poetry. In writing up our minor moments, he reckons to find ""peace beneath the unsteady light / where we give ourselves to the world / as we circle in and out of the dark."" Sometimes funny, sometimes somber, the world of Vaudeville in the Dark ranges from an elegy on the death of a miner in Sago, West Virginia, to a meditation on the life of Rembrandt. Tony the Tiger, Glenn Gould, Chaucer---each has a moment as Ryan makes his way across the stage of our lives. He creates a world both frightening and funny as we -- songsters all -- long for a ""heart dissolved in melody.
R. M. Ryan, the author of Goldilocks in Later Life and the novel The Golden Rules, is also the lyricist for a northern California rock-and-roll band. He lives on the Sonoma coast of California with the biographer Carol Sklenicka.
