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Riffs & Improvisations
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781639800155
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Aug 19 2021
Pages: 36
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.09 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Nathan Leslie, Author of Hurry Up and Relax, Sibs, and Best Small Fictions Series Editor
That torpedo had our names / on it from the start, Gregory Luce writes at the end of Improvisation: Sunk, one of many urgent and poignant poems navigating to the tune of destiny and knowing loss in Riffs & Improvisations. This wondrous collection gifts us inspired poetic riffs infused with musical sensibility, cascading like / notes, off the page like Trane / soloing filigrees. He paints vivid internal and external lyric landscapes: hospital waiting rooms, dance floors, and transports us to Paris 1920 with a breeze that wafts over the piano. Luce plunges into language with an arsenal of truths composing a score from the muses of lived experience-a luminous book propelling a voice we crave.
Ava C. Cipri, Author of Leaving the Burdened Ground and Queen of Swords
The stunning poems in Gregory Luce's Riffs & Improvisations know ecstasy. They pulse, ache, and rejoice. These poems live in kitchens, juke joints, symphony halls, and most importantly, the human heart. Luce conducts masterfully. We feel the beat in a crowded Metro Station, we dance, mistaking our breathing for another's. These poems take us into the marrow of music, where rhythm recognizes its relatives in our bones. These poems take us into cold purgatory and a river of bourbon. Luce gives us Coltrane, and much more, which means, his poems save us.
Joseph Ross, Author of Ache and Raising King
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