Nineteenth Century and Other Poems

Name: Nineteenth Century and Other Poems
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ISBN: 9780977340156

ISBN-10: 0977340155

ISBN-13: 9780977340156

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Authors: Chris Glomski

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Poetry. "What attracts one first to Chris Glomski's poetry is its intricacy, that sense of hidden meanings and cryptic revelation shimmering in 'its secret / curving rescissions / and negative spaces.' Soon afterwards, one comes to understand that he is not merely a sphinx wrapped in Chicago enigma, but that, if one attends to these poems, to the structures they embody, the guy has some actual wisdom to impart, the lean mean kind that probably felt just as good to Melville and Poe as it does today. I've often wondered why poets don't work more often with the compressed energies of steampunk. Certainly they work beautifully in this case, suffusing the book with a low, musical hum while…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Cultural Society, The
Publication date: 9/20/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 48
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.25" tall
Weight: 0.242

Chris Glomski was born in Pueblo, Colorado, and has mostly lived in or around Chicago. He is the author of TRANSPARENCIES LIFTED FROM NOON (Spuyten Duyvil, 2005) and THE NINETEENTH CENTURY AND OTHER POEMS (The Cultural Society, 2011). He lived in Pisa, Italy, from 1991 to 1992, and translates Italian poetry as an intermittent pursuit.