Tough Luck: Poems - Todd Boss

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Auteur(s) : Todd Boss

Editeur : Blue Guides Limited Of London

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/06/2017

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 112

Expédition : 181

Dimensions : 21.1 x 14.5 x 1.5

ISBN : 039360862X

Résumé :

At the center of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145. The freighted, swiftly moving poems in Tough Luck crisscross the chasm between peril and safety as if between opposing riverbanks, revealing a frequently heart-stopping view of the muscled waters below. Marriage, family, home-all come crashing down, but Todd Boss rebuilds with his trademark musicality and a reverent gusto for representing the tactile aspects of human life (Tony Hoagland).

From In the End a Gardener:

is what we want in our corner
of paradise. Someone alert
to the slant of one hour
of afternoon sunlight or other,
who knows what to plant there,
knows what will thrive.

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Biographie:
Todd Boss is the author of three previous collections of poetry, most recently Tough Luck. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry, American Poetry Review, and other publications. Still nomadic, Boss has most recently been based in Phoenix, Arizona, and Austin, Texas....

Sommaire:

At the center of Tough Luck is a poem about the ill-fated I-35W Bridge in Minneapolis and its disastrous collapse, which killed 13 people and injured 145. The freighted, swiftly moving poems in Tough Luck crisscross the chasm between peril and safety as if between opposing riverbanks, revealing a frequently heart-stopping view of the muscled waters below. Marriage, family, home-all come crashing down, but Todd Boss rebuilds with his trademark musicality and a reverent gusto for representing the tactile aspects of human life (Tony Hoagland).

From In the End a Gardener:

is what we want in our corner
of paradise. Someone alert
to the slant of one hour
of afternoon sunlight or other,
who knows what to plant there,
knows what will thrive.