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Автор: Soos R.
Название: Big Blue Book: Complete Poems
ISBN: 9781540362261
Издательство: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Классификация: ISBN-10: 1540362264
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 422
Вес: 0.97 кг.
Дата издания: 14.12.2016
Язык: English
Размер: 280 x 216 x 22
Поставляется из: США
Описание: a poem is a mere cholla needle
embedded deep through skin
when withdrawn the scar lengthens
and the pain worsens
time heals the pain
the scar remains forever
- r soos

Your poetry doesnt really need a classification as it stands by itself. - Karen OLeary, editor of Whispers

Beautiful and incisive commentary on mans deepest questions and yearning for the ultimate answers - Neal Beightol, poet

r soos is an acute observer of the worlds he comes in contact with. He translates both his inner and outer world with equal grace and fluency. His poems soar into a soulful playground and swing across the page visiting subjects and returning, then off again a bit higher visiting a new thought. Later he is caught swinging back to a vivid recalling of a thought or incident worth reporting on. His Selected Poems is a powerful, intelligent selection from 50 years of work. - Antony Paulson, editor of Poetry Review

about this book
When giving a reading in front of folks I needed a larger print version of my books for several reasons - first of the major reasons is the preference in some venues for subdued lighting (largely because lighting costs money, and poetry is notorious for not being surrounded by that entity) - and second, of course, my aging eyes. A more minor, but equally important reason was simply trying to juggle a whole stack of little books at the same time. Very boring, and to some even pretentious.

Each time a new book came out, I would take it to a Xerox shop and have them enlarge the pages 150%, hole punch them, and then place them in a big blue binder. My thought is, a poet giving a reading is a performer, and as a performer my major contribution to the evening is to keep the audience happy. So, if someone called out for me to read one of my obscure poems (one I had simply not thought of for awhile) from one of my older books, I would have it handy.

At readings recently Ive been asked when I was going to put out a collected poems book. In 2015 selected poems came out, and I had felt thats all anyone would ever need; so I would joke around - Im not dead yet. When talking with one of my editors the same subject came up, but I was able to deflect because I had several more books I was working on.

More recently at a reading a person came up to speak with me after the reading and I had left the big blue binder open to the last poem I had read. While speaking with me she happened to glance over to the binder still open on the podium and gasped - I love it - I can see the words without straining Can you give me a copy of that? Back to my editor to share the conversation; and the big blue binder is now the big blue book.

So, if you ever think twice about approaching a performer at a poetry reading, just remember that they are learning from everyone they meet, so why not learn from you? - r soos

Big Blue Book: Complete Poems, Soos R.