The Goat Songs - Brossura

Najarian, James

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1574417177 ISBN 13: 9781574417173

Casa editrice: Univ of North Texas Pr, 2017

Riassunto

The poems in James Najarian’s debut collection are by turns tragic and mischievous, always with an exuberant attention to form. Najarian turns his caprine eye to the landscapes and history of Berks Country, Pennsylvania, and to the middle east of his extended Armenian family. These poems examine our bonds to the earth, to animals, to art and to desire.   

From “Goat Song”

I start up in my wide suburban bed,
patting the mattress, hoping they are real,
and call the names that seem to be for strippers:
Candy, Ceffie, Bambi, Serenade.
Just as the names come out, I understand
them decades—caprine generations—gone,
leaving me only with a kind surmise:
that somewhere their uncountable-great grandkids 
are cramming their mouths with rose and thistle, breaking
out of other pastures, with some other boy.

“In blank verse, free verse, stanzas and syllabics rhymed with delicate quirkiness, the poems of The Goat Songs are sure-footed and nimble.”—A.E. Stallings, author of Olives and judge

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Informazioni sull'autore

JAMES NAJARIAN grew up on a goat farm near Kutztown, Pennsylvania. He received his BA and PhD from Yale University and teaches nineteenth-century literature at Boston College, where he edits the scholarly journal Religion and the Arts. His poem “The Dark Ages” received the Frost Farm Poetry Prize in Metrical Poetry.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of North Texas Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1574417177
• ISBN 13: 9781574417173
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 72
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile