Glaser Elton Glaser

Law of Falling Bodies (eBook, PDF)

Poems

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Produktbeschreibung

The hard center of The Law of Falling Bodies bears down on the twin enmities of pain and loss. But the book ranges over a broad field, with poems covering everything from the inundations of summer rain ("It''s like living in the spit valve of a big trombone") to a lovesick drunk listening to Patsy Cline ("My drink''s on the rocks, and I am, too.") Glaser begins with the quirks and revelations of nature, shifts to those difficult adjustments we make as the body breaks down, modulates to a series of scenes imbued with music, and ends on an elegiac note in memory of his late wife ("Grief follows me like a dog behind the butcher''s truck"). Along the way, the poems touch on a restless scale of tones, as light as the indignant comedy of "It Ain''t the Heat, It''s the Stupidity" and as heartbreakingly dark as "Autopsy." At the core is the constant interplay of an agile mind and rich language--what Ezra Pound called "the dance of the intellect among words"--always feeling out what it is to be human. The Law of Falling Bodies is part of the University of Arkansas Press Poetry series, edited by Enid Shomer.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Arkansas Press
• Seitenzahl: 108
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610755139
• Artikelnr.: 42901986

Autorenporträt

Elton Glaser is the author of seven other poetry collections: Relics, Tropical Depressions, Color Photographs of the Ruins, Winter Amnesties, Pelican Tracks, Here and Hereafter, and Translations from the Flesh. His poems have appeared in the 1995, 1997, and 2000 editions of The Best American Poetry. Among Glaser’s awards are two fellowships from the NEA, seven fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council, the Iowa Poetry Prize, the 1996 Ohionana Poetry Award, and the Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize. He is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Akron, USA, former director of the University of Akron Press, and former editor of the Akron Series in Poetry.