Calm jazz sea
(1996)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Brick Books, 1996
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781771311779 (electronic bk.) MWT12152888, 1771311770 (electronic bk.) 12152888
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award The poems in Calm Jazz Sea reveal a world forever becoming and disappearing, watched over and handled gently by the compassionate intelligence of Mike Barnes. In the everyday and the ephemeral meals, drinks, weather, work, moments of solitude or connection he finds ways to engage the secret matter of humanity: what horrifies, astonishes, or comforts us. Like the sea of the title, restless and receptive, the language of the poems moves through many levels of voice: from an easy vernacular to the strain of conversation, or from the precise record of sensual matter to the insubstantial gestures that constitute thought
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