Vaudeville in the Dark: Poems (Sea Cliff Fund) - Softcover

R. M. Ryan (Author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807136891 ISBN 13: 9780807136898

Publisher: LSU Press, 2010

Synopsis

Vaudeville in the Dark is R. M. Ryan's dance to the music of our times, his search for salvation in poetry. In writing up our minor moments, he reckons to find ""peace beneath the unsteady light / where we give ourselves to the world / as we circle in and out of the dark."" Sometimes funny, sometimes somber, the world of Vaudeville in the Dark ranges from an elegy on the death of a miner in Sago, West Virginia, to a meditation on the life of Rembrandt. Tony the Tiger, Glenn Gould, Chaucer---each has a moment as Ryan makes his way across the stage of our lives. He creates a world both frightening and funny as we -- songsters all -- long for a ""heart dissolved in melody.

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About the Author

R. M. Ryan, the author of Goldilocks in Later Life and the novel The Golden Rules, is also the lyricist for a northern California rock-and-roll band. He lives on the Sonoma coast of California with the biographer Carol Sklenicka.

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This sudden Novemberclarity. Everything nearer.Then this dervishof leaves across the yard,brown spinning up and down,how DNA might dancewhen the drabteaches us delight. ---"Late Fall"

Edition details

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807136891
• ISBN 13: 9780807136898
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250