Dead to Rights: A Circularity of Glosas - Softcover

Dexter, Alain C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1909636010 ISBN 13: 9781909636019

Publisher: Greyhart Press, 2013

Synopsis

Ladies and gentlemen, step right up, don’t be shy, and enter the rhyming gyre of glosas, forty-four line rock operas, poetic pas de deux.

Dead to Rights: A Circularity of Glosas features eighteen dramatic mini-tales, introduced by quatrains and philosophies that include Poe, Milton, Epictetus and Dickens; spun to effervescence by the spirited Alain C. Dexter.

“Glosas deliver like a compact short story, in stereo; they’re a poetic high energy drink, a double shot espresso of verse. You can read one glosa and read it again several times to experience a kaleidoscope effect of something new with each reread. Or you can take in a whole wallop of them and begin to sense the underlying structure that gives the glosa its . . . well, glisten.” — Alain C. Dexter

Contributors of Crown Stanzas include John Milton Gavriel Navarro Herman Melville Friedrich Nietzsche Alfred, Lord Tennyson Charles Dickens Edgar Allan Poe John Donne Rumi

About this title

About the Author

Alain C. Dexter is a professor of poetry at Brougham College and best-selling, heteronymic author of the award-winning Gizzard’s Luck & Other Organic Festivities, a collection of short stories; and the poetry collection, Poems from the Soles of his Feet. Dexter enjoys imported beer, hiking in the great Canadian north woods, and hobnobbing with the rich and famous. He appears as himself in Elaine Stirling’s novella of horror and good medicine, Dead Edit Redo, and lives on the north shore of Lake Superior.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greyhart Press
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1909636010
• ISBN 13: 9781909636019
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 74