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Dancing with Poets

Dancing with Poets

Turchi, Reed

Paperback

Series: Colorado Prize for Poetry

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

PREORDER - Expected ship date November 15, 2026

ISBN10: 1966618026
ISBN13: 9781966618027
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Published: Nov 15 2026
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.90 Depth: 6.90
Language: English

Reed Turchi's debut collection, Dancing with Poets, explores what it means to make--and re-make--oneself amid a swirl of love, loss, and memory. In dive bars and art museums, baseball stadiums and blues clubs, Turchi summons his ghosts and invites them to sing their songs. A Grammy Award-winning musician as well as poet, Turchi is guided by finely honed rhythm and a singular sonic sensibility that coaxes music from poems that are narrative and lyric in turn. As a collection, Dancing with Poets remembers those the author has loved and lost, but avoids nostalgia, asking instead what futures may be built from grief and how love may grow on the other side of devastation. While the poems may swirl, their emotional truth remains crystalline: The characters, moments, and stories in each poem are infinitely recognizable--fantastic and quotidian in equal measure. Within these poems there are chicken tenders and high art, motorcycles and funerals--a familiar boyhood that happened to be spent surrounded by some of the finest American poets of the late twentieth century. In Dancing with Poets, Turchi invites his reader to join him--to strut and spin in grief and joy alike.

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