Cocktails: Ausgewählte Gedichte - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3939557366 ISBN 13: 9783939557364

Synopsis

In Cocktails, poems both harrowing and beautiful strive toward redemption and light within the transformative and often conflicting worlds of the cocktail lounge, the cinema and the Gospels. Powell's third collection (following Tea and Lunch) completes a contemporary Divine Comedy born of the AIDS pandemic and is delivered with wit and eloquence.

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Review:

"Powell recognizes in the contemporary the latest manifestations of a much older tradition: namely, what it is to be human . . . I admire these poems immensely, for their deftness with craft, their originality of vision, their ability to fuse old and new without devolving to gimmick-and for a dignity as jazzily inventive as it is sheer." -Carl Phillips, from the citation for the 2001 "Boston Review" Poetry Contest

"Here is work that manages to be entirely of-the-moment while at every turn it announces (without preening over it) not merely an awareness, but an actual confidence with such prosodic traditions as the heroic couplet and the pentameter line, such cultural and literary traditions as those of the New Testament and of meaningfully comic punning. No fear, here, of heritage nor of music nor, refreshingly, of authority....I admire these poems immensely, for their deftness with craft, their originality of vision, their ability to fuse old and new without devolving to gimmick--and for a dignity as jazzily inventive as it is sheer." --Carl Phillips, from the citation for the 2001 "Boston Review" Poetry Contest

"In "Cocktails", D. A. Powell's lens for examining reality and society is fitted with a very modern filter-passionate wit."--Carol Frost

Powell recognizes in the contemporary the latest manifestations of a much older tradition: namely, what it is to be human . . . I admire these poems immensely, for their deftness with craft, their originality of vision, their ability to fuse old and new without devolving to gimmick-and for a dignity as jazzily inventive as it is sheer. "Carl Phillips, from the citation for the 2001 Boston Review Poetry Contest"

Here is work that manages to be entirely of-the-moment while at every turn it announces (without preening over it) not merely an awareness, but an actual confidence with such prosodic traditions as the heroic couplet and the pentameter line, such cultural and literary traditions as those of the New Testament and of meaningfully comic punning. No fear, here, of heritage nor of music nor, refreshingly, of authority....I admire these poems immensely, for their deftness with craft, their originality of vision, their ability to fuse old and new without devolving to gimmick--and for a dignity as jazzily inventive as it is sheer. "Carl Phillips, from the citation for the 2001 Boston Review Poetry Contest"

In "Cocktails," D. A. Powell's lens for examining reality and society is fitted with a very modern filter-passionate wit. "Carol Frost""

"Powell recognizes in the contemporary the latest manifestations of a much older tradition: namely, what it is to be human . . . I admire these poems immensely, for their deftness with craft, their originality of vision, their ability to fuse old and new without devolving to gimmick-and for a dignity as jazzily inventive as it is sheer." --Carl Phillips, from the citation for the 2001 Boston Review Poetry Contest

"Here is work that manages to be entirely of-the-moment while at every turn it announces (without preening over it) not merely an awareness, but an actual confidence with such prosodic traditions as the heroic couplet and the pentameter line, such cultural and literary traditions as those of the New Testament and of meaningfully comic punning. No fear, here, of heritage nor of music nor, refreshingly, of authority....I admire these poems immensely, for their deftness with craft, their originality of vision, their ability to fuse old and new without devolving to gimmick--and for a dignity as jazzily inventive as it is sheer." --Carl Phillips, from the citation for the 2001 Boston Review Poetry Contest

"In Cocktails, D. A. Powell's lens for examining reality and society is fitted with a very modern filter-passionate wit." --Carol Frost

About the Author:

D. A. Powell is the author of Tea and Lunch. He is Briggs-Copeland Lecturer in Poetry at Harvard University.

About this edition

• ISBN 10: 3939557366
• ISBN 13: 9783939557364
• Binding: Paperback