The Big Job Political Poems 1978 - 2004 |
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| Author:
| Edwards, Robert |
| ISBN: | 978-1-945063-00-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2016 |
| Publisher: | Red Dragonfly Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $17.00 |
Book Description:
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Poetry. "THE BIG JOB is filled with exclamations, high-spirited imperatives, and raucous hilarity in poems that are linguistically and formally adventurous without being coy and vague. All of these qualities make them highly unfashionable, but we would do well to read them and see what we're missing in so much contemporary poetry that works so hard to say so little. In Manifesto #94, Edwards wrote the following lines, committing to political action: 'Now is the time / to set the wind...
More DescriptionPoetry. "THE BIG JOB is filled with exclamations, high-spirited imperatives, and raucous hilarity in poems that are linguistically and formally adventurous without being coy and vague. All of these qualities make them highly unfashionable, but we would do well to read them and see what we're missing in so much contemporary poetry that works so hard to say so little. In Manifesto #94, Edwards wrote the following lines, committing to political action: 'Now is the time / to set the wind free in the house. / Now is the time / to unsheathe my tongue / and take the safety off my hand.' Now is still the time."—Jonathan Andersen