Visiting Hours at the Color Line: Poems - Brossura

Pavlic, Ed

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1571314601 ISBN 13: 9781571314604

Casa editrice: Milkweed Editions, 2013

Riassunto

Often the most recognized, even brutal, events in American history are assigned a bifurcated public narrative. We divide historical and cultural life into two camps, often segregated by a politicized, racially divided "Color Line." But how do we privately experience the most troubling features of American civilization? Where is the Color Line in the mind, in the body, between bodies, between human beings? Ed Pavlic's Visiting Hours at the Color Line, a 2012 National Poetry Series winner, attempts to complicate this black-and-white, straight-line feature of our collective imagination, and to map its nonlinear, deeply colored timbres and hues. From the daring prose poem to the powerful free verse, Pavlic's lines are musically infused, bearing tones of soul, R&B, and jazz. Meanwhile, joining the influence of James Baldwin with a postmodern consciousness the likes of Samuel Beckett, Pavlic tracks the experiences of American characters through situations both mundane and momentous, and exposes the many textures of this social, historical world as it seeps into the private dimensions of our lives. The resulting poems are intense&;at times even violent&;ambitious, and psychological, making Visiting Hours at the Color Line a poetic tour de force, by one of the century's most acclaimed American poets.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Ed Pavlic has been awarded the Honickman First Book Prize and is a National Poetry Series award winner, in addition to receiving fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. He is the author of four previous collections of poems including, Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway. He lives in Athens, GA.

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Praise for Visiting Hours at the Color Line

?These remarkable poems are in conversation with us: our culture, our history, our ghosts. Even after enraptured multiple readings, I am incapable of succinctly praising this poet s immense talent and this new book s urgent, beautiful complexities.
?Terrance Hayes

?To fully enjoy the sweet complexity and gravity-defying genre blending in Visiting Hours at the Color Line, one has to first put aside fears of postmodern tricksterism and fake-outs, then come to believe that ?talk happens without words. Inside Ed Pavlic's staunch, idiomatic phrasings and syntactic figurations is a heart bursting with sharp observations and a desire to read the nonverbal signs that point to and record our supreme humanity.
?Major Jackson

?Ever since I discovered Ed Pavlic's poetry, I find myself measuring other authors against the steady stream of his voice, and the heart and politics one finds in his short and long lines?the very sound of freedom.
?Hilton Als

?These poems don t prove, but play within the fundamental suspicion that ethics and erotics are one. It is a tune we need to hear: one that lulls where sleep rightly beckons, and one that wakes as exactly where it is we must be awake.
?Dan Beachy-Quick


Praise for Ed Pavlic

"Ed Pavlic's poems are rituals for awareness. A stunning contribution to international literature."
?Nathalie Handal

"There's a beauty embodied in this poet's straightforward journey."
?Yusef Komunyakaa

"Ed Pavlic's poetry balances itself on a tightrope of musical strings strung across a precipice between the irrational and the rational. The body of his work is a kind of musical instrument: horn-guitar-percussion-words. Like jazz he wants to be without notaion, but he is a poet, stuck with language, various cultures that have caught his attention. And reading him is a theatrical experience."
?Stanley Moss

"The tension in Ed Pavlic's poems is a language-cable wrought to swing you out over unnerving spaces, let you see and hear what they really hold, and bring you back up more alive than you were before. Dialogic, dangerous, this is a poetics of body and soul, music to listen to with all five senses."
?Adrienne Rich


Ed Pavlic is the author of five previous books, including Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway and Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue. His awards include The American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, among others. In 2012, he was a fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute. Pavlic teaches at the Universiy of Georgia and lives in Athens.

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Praise for Visiting Hours at the Color Line

“These remarkable poems are in conversation with us: our culture, our history, our ghosts. Even after enraptured multiple readings, I am incapable of succinctly praising this poet&;s immense talent and this new book&;s urgent, beautiful complexities.&;
—Terrance Hayes

“To fully enjoy the sweet complexity and gravity-defying genre blending in Visiting Hours at the Color Line, one has to first put aside fears of postmodern tricksterism and fake-outs, then come to believe that ‘talk&; happens without words. Inside Ed Pavlic's staunch, idiomatic phrasings and syntactic figurations is a heart bursting with sharp observations and a desire to read the nonverbal signs that point to and record our supreme humanity.&;
—Major Jackson

“Ever since I discovered Ed Pavlic's poetry, I find myself measuring other authors against the steady stream of his voice, and the heart and politics one finds in his short and long lines—the very sound of freedom.&;
—Hilton Als

“These poems don&;t prove, but play within the fundamental suspicion that ethics and erotics are one. It is a tune we need to hear: one that lulls where sleep rightly beckons, and one that wakes as exactly where it is we must be awake.&;
—Dan Beachy-Quick


Praise for Ed Pavlic

"Ed Pavlic's poems are rituals for awareness. A stunning contribution to international literature."
—Nathalie Handal

"There's a beauty embodied in this poet's straightforward journey."
—Yusef Komunyakaa

"Ed Pavlic's poetry balances itself on a tightrope of musical strings strung across a precipice between the irrational and the rational. The body of his work is a kind of musical instrument: horn-guitar-percussion-words. Like jazz he wants to be without notaion, but he is a poet, stuck with language, various cultures that have caught his attention. And reading him is a theatrical experience."
—Stanley Moss

"The tension in Ed Pavlic's poems is a language-cable wrought to swing you out over unnerving spaces, let you see and hear what they really hold, and bring you back up more alive than you were before. Dialogic, dangerous, this is a poetics of body and soul, music to listen to with all five senses."
—Adrienne Rich


Ed Pavlic is the author of five previous books, including Winners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway and Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue. His awards include The American Poetry Review/Honickman First Book Prize, among others. In 2012, he was a fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute. Pavlic teaches at the Universiy of Georgia and lives in Athens.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Milkweed Editions
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1571314601
• ISBN 13: 9781571314604
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 141
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile