Captivity Narratives - Softcover

Blevins, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0923389768 ISBN 13: 9780923389765

Publisher: Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2009

Synopsis

Poetry. "At once unnervingly learned and boldly feelingful, Richard Blevins is a hero of the contemporary long-form poem, and CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES' driven reconsiderations of the disappeared careers of photographer Fred Holland Day and poet Adelaide Crapsey have a sweep and an intimacy that excite from line to alert line. With their heady synchronies and hyperlucid lyric fragments, their unearthings and upendings, their questing meditations and meditative narratives, their bursts of aphorism and doses of tonic fact, these are poems of an unusually welcoming intelligence and of an unassuming mastery. 'If you want to keep a secret, print it in a poem,' Blevins writes, and fortunate is any reader privy to the confidences volunteered in these generous, essential pages"--Gary Lutz.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Blevins’ Fogbow Bridge: Selected Poems, 1972-1999 was published by Pavement Saw. He edited two volumes of the Charles Olson/Robert Creeley correspondence for Black Sparrow. His dissertation is on Will Henry. He lives and teaches, in western Pennsylvania, with his wife Martha Koehler and their two daughters.

Edition details

• Publisher: Meeting Eyes Bindery
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0923389768
• ISBN 13: 9780923389765
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 90