The people of George Guida's latest collection live the bout between despair and redemption: the broken-down fighter, the lonely dancer on her balcony, the card player, the pornographer, the comic, the divorcee, the unfulfilled mother, the desperate father, the murderous uncle, the witness to disaster. These poems are their pathos and humor, their clinch and feint, their counter to the universe's big right hand. Guida's voice, unique in American poetry, recalls the best of Philip Levine, Kim Addonizio, Frank O'Hara, and ...
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The people of George Guida's latest collection live the bout between despair and redemption: the broken-down fighter, the lonely dancer on her balcony, the card player, the pornographer, the comic, the divorcee, the unfulfilled mother, the desperate father, the murderous uncle, the witness to disaster. These poems are their pathos and humor, their clinch and feint, their counter to the universe's big right hand. Guida's voice, unique in American poetry, recalls the best of Philip Levine, Kim Addonizio, Frank O'Hara, and Billy Collins. The reach of his work is long, its power undeniable.
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