Traveling for No Good Reason: Poems

Franklin, George

ISBN 10: 1732940606 / ISBN 13: 9781732940604

Editore: Sheila-Na-Gig Online, 2018

Codice articolo 34998411-n

Riassunto:

These poems in Traveling for No Good Reason tell stories, and they invite the reader to enter into those stories.  Whether the poet is drinking Cuban coffee in Miami, visiting Joseph Brodsky’s grave in Venice, teaching writing workshops in a Florida prison, learning to read Greek in New York City in the 1980s, or trying to make sense out of a love that is unexpected and undeserved, the stories are about the recompense we receive for our losses, the pleasures and ideas that allow us to start to live all over again.  Sometimes that recompense is erotic, sometimes merely the fact of telling the story.  The poems are conversational in style while at the same time seeking out what is often hard to talk about: the end of a marriage, a friend’s slow death, or what desire might actually mean.  Regardless, it’s the conversation that’s always foremost.  In looking to understand, these poems themselves want to be understood, to be transparent.  They may engage historical or mythological figures or the woman whose life the poet shares, but their conversation is ultimately with the reader.

Informazioni sugli autori: George Franklin practices law in Miami and teaches writing workshops in Florida state prisons. His poems have been most recently published in Sheila-Na-Gig online, Salamander, The Wild Word, B O D Y, Matter, Scalawag, Gulf Stream, Rascal, Amsterdam Quarterly, and Twyckenham Notes. Additional poems are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Cagibi, The Wild Word, and armarolla, and a bi-lingual edition of his poems, with Spanish translations by Ximena Gomez, is forthcoming from Katakana Editores.

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Sheila-Na-Gig online, Hayley Mitchell Haugen holds a Ph.D. in 20th Century American Literature from Ohio University and an MFA in poetry from the University of Washington. She is currently an Associate Professor of English at Ohio University Southern, where she teaches courses in composition, American literature, and creative writing. Her poetry chapbook What the Grimm Girl Looks Forward To appears from Finishing Line Press (2016), and her full-length collection Light & Shadow, Shadow & Light is from Main Street Rag Publishing Company. Her poems have appeared in Rattle, Slant, Spillway, Chiron Review, and many other journals. Her critical work appears in the anthologies The Body in Medical Culture; On the Literary Nonfiction of Nancy Mairs; and Stephen King's Contemporary Classics: Reflections on the Modern Master of Horror.

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Titolo: Traveling for No Good Reason: Poems
Casa editrice: Sheila-Na-Gig Online
Data di pubblicazione: 2018
Legatura: Brossura
Condizione: New
Edizione: seconda edizione