Acrobats of Sound - Softcover

Colin Pink

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3901993568 ISBN 13: 9783901993565

Publisher: Poetry Salzburg, 2016

Synopsis

Colin Pink’s lyric poems are quietly spoken and beautifully made. This is an unassuming, life-affirming poetry. The poems go on long after they’re done, a product of the poet’s mastery of old and invented forms, of rhythm and rhyme and line, and his refusal of artifice in thought and language, his commitment to the democratic spirituality of everyday speech. These are quiet, hard-won poems, mature and youthful at once, in which one life, its secrets kept, its inner life said, becomes all our lives. You'll find here reflections on how childhood walks along inside one’s adult days, honest and urgent meditations on solitude and myth and city places, on art and on life as a recursive, Sisyphean work of art. - Mark Tredinnick These are poems that tightrope walk between the New York School and a more traditional English mode. Here, nature is barbwire, and paintings, monuments, and myths, are renewed. The language is exact, clever, and always on the Panther Prowl. A fine collection from a poet worth tumbling for. - Todd Swift Colin Pink’s love of language and sound clearly shine through in this collection. There is a certain delicacy in his writing. His poetry is best read slowly and meditatively. Pink goes beyond the obvious and shows us what most people don’t see in day-to-day life. - Katherine Lockton

Edition details

• Publisher: Poetry Salzburg
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3901993568
• ISBN 13: 9783901993565
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 92