No one sounds like W.S. Di Piero. Explosive language, rough sensuousness, unflinching eye--here is a poet who will not look away, and who is always committed to poetry's first purpose: to bring song. Tombo is a book of lyrics fueled in equal parts by realism and big-fish storytelling, a book of wanderers, foghorns, summer rain, feral cats, and city jazz. Built on heartbreak particulars, these poems are raw, mysterious dilations of the moments of existence: Life, as you say, my friend, is lived in its transitions. There's ...
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No one sounds like W.S. Di Piero. Explosive language, rough sensuousness, unflinching eye--here is a poet who will not look away, and who is always committed to poetry's first purpose: to bring song. Tombo is a book of lyrics fueled in equal parts by realism and big-fish storytelling, a book of wanderers, foghorns, summer rain, feral cats, and city jazz. Built on heartbreak particulars, these poems are raw, mysterious dilations of the moments of existence: Life, as you say, my friend, is lived in its transitions. There's a yonder that abides right here. It lives in the electric air of field or room, unseen but palpable as snow or blowing dust. --from "The Running Dog"
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Add this copy of Tombo to cart. $37.62, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2014 by McSweeney's.
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New. No Jacket. Signed by Author(s) San Francisco: McSweeneys Poetry Series [2014]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New, very slight bruise to upper corners. A tight unread copy. Issued without dust jacket. Shipped in well padded box. Purchased new and never opened. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page (name only). Smoke free. Poetry-Off.
