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ISBN10: 1639801944
ISBN13: 9781639801947
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 11 2022
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781639801947
Publisher: Kelsay Books
Published: Oct 11 2022
Pages: 154
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.36 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
To read the poems in Gregg Friedberg's WHAT'S WRONG is to discover a voice
unlike any other in its dizzying ability to address serious matters-love,
desire, loss, belief and radical un-belief, to name a few-surprisingly,
with joyous invention and indefatigable wit. The supreme ironist who is
unlike any other in its dizzying ability to address serious matters-love,
desire, loss, belief and radical un-belief, to name a few-surprisingly,
with joyous invention and indefatigable wit. The supreme ironist who is
the speaker of these poems consoles his tormented soul handily with verbal
wizardry. Grief, he says, is a mediocrity so he dresses it up and makes
a party of it all. His is a dark vision, to be sure, but in that darkness
there is no dearth of colorful illumination to pick up our spirits.
-PegBoyers, executive editor of Salmagundi, author of The Album, To Forget
Venice, Honey with Tobacco, and Hard Bread
wizardry. Grief, he says, is a mediocrity so he dresses it up and makes
a party of it all. His is a dark vision, to be sure, but in that darkness
there is no dearth of colorful illumination to pick up our spirits.
-PegBoyers, executive editor of Salmagundi, author of The Album, To Forget
Venice, Honey with Tobacco, and Hard Bread
Rarely has formality of language achieved such intimacy-in these linked
poems-the questing speaker, in reaching towards the other, begins to
know himself. Can I infallibly distinguish the artificial from the
natural? Indeed! Yet nothing surpasses the beauty of the language, its
music, its dance on the page, its lush sensuality.
-Lee Gould, editor of La Presa
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