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Disfortune
Disfortune
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Wenderoth's poetry features Terse and haunting lyrics that mark a new intimacy with the world
Disfortune is not in the mainstream of American poetic speech, nor is it easily placed into any of the well-known poetic speech-camps that have arisen on its margins. Terse, haunting lyrics expose the irreducible contradictions of living, wherein the talking-singing, the whole talking-/singing ball of yarn, begins to unravel. Deceptively casual in tone, these poems offer startling confrontations with the unoriginal/oblivion, with the contrived delicacy/of what is emptied and kept. Joe Wenderoth sees fortune as the mute history of events proceeding toward the ultimate security; his poems arise from disfortune, from the need Just to sing the song that's kept you/quiet/all this time. This book is a rare occurrence, marking not only a new intimacy with the world, but also a remembering of the determined motion of intimacy itself.
Author: Joe Wenderoth
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 08/01/1995
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.60w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9780819512260
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/31/1995
Disfortune is not in the mainstream of American poetic speech, nor is it easily placed into any of the well-known poetic speech-camps that have arisen on its margins. Terse, haunting lyrics expose the irreducible contradictions of living, wherein the talking-singing, the whole talking-/singing ball of yarn, begins to unravel. Deceptively casual in tone, these poems offer startling confrontations with the unoriginal/oblivion, with the contrived delicacy/of what is emptied and kept. Joe Wenderoth sees fortune as the mute history of events proceeding toward the ultimate security; his poems arise from disfortune, from the need Just to sing the song that's kept you/quiet/all this time. This book is a rare occurrence, marking not only a new intimacy with the world, but also a remembering of the determined motion of intimacy itself.
Author: Joe Wenderoth
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 08/01/1995
Pages: 84
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 8.52h x 5.60w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9780819512260
Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/31/1995
About the Author
JOE WENDEROTH grew up near Baltimore. He graduated with a B.A. in English/Creative Writing from Loyola College in Baltimore, attended the graduate Creative Writing program at New York University, then transferred to and received an M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. To pay for food, shelter, and music, he has done and continues to do what he has to do.
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