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Illustrated Games of Patience

Illustrated Games of Patience

Estes, Ben

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ISBN10: 0988464373
ISBN13: 9780988464377
Publisher: Song Cave
Published: Jan 1 2015
Pages: 75
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 7.40
Language: English

This beautiful work of late Romanticism finds Estes often roaming, sometimes making his bed in uncomfortable places ... The poems speak in riddles, impossible questions, vivid sensuous description, and, on one page, doggerel. --Aaron Kunin

What exactly is an illustrated game of patience? Imagine something like group solitaire within a room full of objects, Duchamp on a TV, some great old albums, voices from a radio or the past and a set of reverberating cymbals. In Ben Estes's Illustrated Games of Patience, the game involves sorting through objects and landscapes to reveal their soft hums of isolation, often in the wake of love. If there is winning involved, the rewards are hope for renewal and a faith in arranging. Filled with color and light, these poems make vivid the tender details of close observation, urging love to stretch and green.

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