James Cummins's Then and Now: Poems PDF

By James Cummins

James Cummins’s first e-book of poems, The entire Truth, grew to become identified all through a lot of the poetry international because the “Perry Mason sestinas.” His moment publication, Portrait in a Spoon, used to be selected via Richard Howard for the James Dickey Prize modern Poetry Series.

His most recent and such a lot finished paintings is accumulated in Then & Now, which displays an identical inventiveness and wit glaring in his prior books, with a deepening of tone and spirit. the result's a suite of poems packed with feeling and with Cummins's signature anguished humor.

If the language of poetry is a fashion right into a corridor of mirrors of the self, it may be a fashion out, too. The voice that emerges in Then & Now is sane, innovative, bemused, and sly, not just taking accountability for the nature of the author positioned totally on demonstrate, yet sarcastically and affectionately exploring how this approach occurs. 

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