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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
For Whoever Thinks a Piano is Furniture

For Whoever Thinks a Piano is Furniture

Fruchey, Deborah L.
Tanner, Rudy Jon

Paperback

Fiction Anthologies

ISBN13: 9798987520918
Publisher: Last Laugh Productions
Published: Apr 25 2023
Pages: 160
Weight: 0.49
Height: 0.34 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Rudy Jon Tanner was a poet of the vibrant Babarian Movement in 1980s San Francisco. Part of the circle around Julia Vinograd, Rudy spent a reclusive life composing and writing poetry.

Rudy Jon Tanner's poetry is a wonderful exploration not only of his thoughts but, more importantly, of the sounds of his thoughts as they go dancing by in that mirror, the written page. He is as much a musician as a poet and, while he has 'things' to 'say, ' the delight is more in the 'saying' than in the 'things': 'we break into that comma shaped trophy horse neck smooth in the curve.' Only a poet with a deep training in music would be likely to write a line like 'all that bone and flesh in the sea pitted against siren deep from his own belly, didn't eat.' Though deliberately and carefully 'accessible, ' Tanner's work is simultaneously beautiful and expansive and tells us that a poem is no more the vehicle of its 'ideas' than a piano is a piece of furniture. His language is the sound of spirit as it nudges its often-complex musings into the ecstatic expectations of a consciousness that is always elevated, brilliantly tuned, and turned towards 'the sounds of above.' It is all in tempo rubato: 'between the darkly limned blossoms boldly circumscribed.' It is a poets' poetry that always remembers that people must be carefully seduced into a condition of joy.

-Jack Foley, KPFA Radio host & author of A California Beat Literary Timeline - The 1950s (The Beat

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