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The Floating Bridge : Prose Poems

By David Shumate

Book information

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2008
ISBN
9780822990765, 9780822959892
LCC
PS3569
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
183 kB (187533 bytes)
Series
Pitt Poetry Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
84\84
Time added
2023-08-08 06:32:15
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Description

"Vanquishes once and for all the notion that the prose poem is somehow inherently 'not a real poem.' Exhibits a sustained level of innate lyricism and imagism rarely seen even in conventional lyric free verse. Unfailingly, the little prose jewels in 'The Floating Bridge' exhibit the most fundamental property of fine poems: each whole is many times greater than the sum of its parts."--Cider Press Review"Shumate's collection consists of over 50 gems...each one loaded with the living essence that hovers just beyond rationality's gate. [He] is a master of this forthright form. His book is a key to the room where dreams are stored."--Nuvo"I was deeply taken by David Shumate's The Floating Bridge. There is none better working now at this very difficult genre, the prose poem."--Jim Harrison

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