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Analog Synthesis
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639807314
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Apr 8 2025
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.31
Height: 0.23 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Analog Synthesis continues the pattern Fried started eleven years ago and exceeds it. His formalism allows for compression, and some of his work, a good deal, seems to my mind, in a way, kin to certain poems of Hart Crane, although his subjects are different. His sentences rock and pull, like tectonic plates, and yet confirm the overall meaning with a startling clarity. These are deeply felt poems, drawn from the past with the poignant humor that love and time compel. And now I am compelled to use a famous title to describe them as what they are, Pictures From a Gone World. They seem to emanate from such a place, from an earlier life, our earlier life, the once upon a time of each of us. There is attractiveness and power in such poems. Possibly greatness. I have been entranced by them.
-E.M. Schorb, poet, novelist, and author of Once Upon Each Time: Collected Poems
It's a rare gift to step back in time and let memory illuminate the present. Nostalgia, after all, isn't just a longing for the past - it's a celebration of the inspiration that shaped who we are. In this collection, Analog Synthesis, Christopher Fried crafts verses that resonate like echoes from a mixtape, capturing the rhythms of our collective imagination and the cultural touchstones that still reverberate today...Fried's poetry does something powerful - it transforms nostalgia into art, blending reverence for the past with a keen awareness of the present.
-Robin Block, Founder and CEO of CREATORVC
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