Rain
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (801 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 193351714X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 88 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-04-29 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Forget the umbrella." according to Trey Pharis. This book was good. I liked the pacing and the word choices. It established a good mood, without struggling for themes. It reminded me of good things I'd read in the past without being a carbon copy of those things. I will read it again to remember what it was about. Thanks.
Jon Woodward was born in Wichita, Kansas and currently works for the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. His first book Mister Goodbye Easter Island was published by Alice James Books in 2003.
Relying on youthful sincerity rather than nostalgic rumination, this 2005 Verse Prize winner is a sweet, sharp, and honest elegy.. “Woodward seeks news rather desperately from outer space—and finds it in that huge vacancy, the human heart.”—Jorie Graham Short, energetic, interlinked poems describe the daily and sometimes surprisingly routine nature of grief
Spoken in an endearing, companionable voice, these poems-or sections of a long poem-meditate on the most ordinary of daily happenings. Woodward (Mister Goodbye Easter Island, 2003) notes that tulip petals, after a while, go "lazy and strange." He waits for his songs on the jukebox. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Rain becomes the central metaphor for the book and a shaping formal device:, "it's that/honest moment before the orchestra tunes itself/although much longer in duration/the instruments join in and/fall away as many times/as time will allow for/the droplets arrive at the/faces of you and me." Readers might wish for more of the mischievousness that occasionally graces the poems, but this book is impressively captivating, considering that nothing much happens. All rights reserved. He sees the kind of hubcaps that "continue/to spin when the car comes/to a stop."