Poetry. African American Studies. Available again. California Poet Laureate, Al Young is also a novelist and essayist. He is the recipient of NEA, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, as well as the PEN/Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction and the PEN/USA Award for Non-Fiction. "Al Young's THE SOUND OF DREAMS invites readers to travel the depth and breadth of his bountiful imagination. There is a deep singing inside of Al Young's poetry, with a hint of Ocean Springs beneath a distilled signifying in the hands of a ...
Read More
Poetry. African American Studies. Available again. California Poet Laureate, Al Young is also a novelist and essayist. He is the recipient of NEA, Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships, as well as the PEN/Library of Congress Award for Short Fiction and the PEN/USA Award for Non-Fiction. "Al Young's THE SOUND OF DREAMS invites readers to travel the depth and breadth of his bountiful imagination. There is a deep singing inside of Al Young's poetry, with a hint of Ocean Springs beneath a distilled signifying in the hands of a master code switcher. This seasoned voice knows the music and folklore, the history and lingo, and each poem, with an almost sacred sincerity, take us multiple dimensions in a single breath" --- Yusef KomunyakaA.
Read Less
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Torrence, Vivian. Good. binding good. cover rub marks and curl. edges and corners curled and corners starting to peal. some page corners bent. no marks on text. 134 pages, 9" x 6", A Donald S. Ellis Book In this latest collection, Al Young demonstrates why his poetry is loved and followed worldwide. At a time when most American poets are writing what Lawrence Ferlinghetti calls "a kind of prose masquerading in the typography of poetry, " Al Young sings. His ear for music never lets him forget that the body is the boom-box of poetry. A master of dramatic monologue, Young continues to work in the many voices and forms that distinguish his work. Rare among contemporary poets, he almost never uses the pronoun "I" to refer to himself. His contempt for the unremitting arrogance of the confessional mode is hardly a secret. Like poets across the ages, Young is grounded and experienced in the pride and prejudice of his own times, and yet he can jump right over the moon and straight at the sun. Whether sonnetizing love or loss, laughing at smug social presumptions, condemning CIA drug deals, the thriving prison industry, bio-tech food, greed in a darkening stockocracy, or celebrating eternal verities, Al Young writes with spirit, imagination, and hope.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Book has internal/external wear and/or highlighting and underlining. It may have creases on the cover and some folded pages. This is a USED book. Codes have been used. All items ship Monday-Friday within 2-3 business days. Thank you for supporting Goodwill of OC.
