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Taking the Train of Singularity South from Midtown

Taking the Train of Singularity South from Midtown

Ronan, John J.

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 1935218425
ISBN13: 9781935218425
Publisher: Backwaters Press
Published: Jan 15 2017
Pages: 94
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.26 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

The general theme of this book, and a number of its individual poems, is that love and language create community. There is little self- reference and confession. Set in Gloucester, New York, or Paris, in Panama or Newtown, the poems come from a commitment to civic poetry, a poetry of social place and witness. Civic poetry is poems written for the public on community topics; poetry accessible to an attentive, general audience. And since it is often meant to be read in public, civic poetry relies on sound and familiar forms: rhyming tricks, assonance, consonance, regular rhythms, refrain and stanza, couplets, etc. And of course, civic poetry, like all poetry, is insightful, well-crafted and fresh, never talks down, and is never watered down.

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