Other Lover

Name: Other Lover
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ISBN: 9780226764085

ISBN-10: 0226764087

ISBN-13: 9780226764085

Edition: 2000

Authors: Bruce Smith

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The Other Lover is a collection of bittersweet American love poems. Writing with jazz-like verbal panache, Bruce Smith reaches for the paradoxical pulls between sweetness and bitterness. With carefully crafted rhyming stanzas and unpredictable free verse rhythms, these poems bristle and pop like the riffs of a virtuoso horn player. The book is a personal, passionate, disturbing collection that places the reader both inside and outside of the poet's life. Deftly filtering personal experiences through improvisatory structures and a wide range of idioms, Smith communicates the want, the lack, the desire for what is missing, the sweetness of absence and pain. The pleasure of The Other Lover is…

Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/3/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 98
Size: 0.62" wide x 0.85" long x 0.03" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Silvia Montiglio is associate professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of Silence in the Land of Logos.



Acknowledgments


The Piano Lost in the Divorce


Afterbody Letter Flight Art I'll


Make a Broken Music, or I'll Die


I Pray for No More Reagans Delinquent


After the Evening News


In the Blue Room Immortality Ode Drivin' and Cryin'


His Father in the Exhaust of Engines Double Sessions 1-A His Father


Waiting for the Light to Devour


Him Stroke Eating the Man In the Absence of War


Students Epaulette Groove and Break


His Voice at Fifty Living After All


Suite for the Possessed Hart Crane


A Dream for Two Voices To the Executive


Director of the Fallen World To the Executive


Director of the Actual Memory of Italy Lover and Ex Club Lament


The Child We Didn't Have In Santa Croce Catullan


The Clearing East of Eden Dawn of the Dead


A Living After St. Vincent Millay


In the Valley of Too Much Rain Hart Crane


A Coda February Sky To Persephone Whose Face Is Potent


Against the Malice of Ghosts