Richard Newman
All the Wasted Beauty of the World - Poems Paperback Book
All the Wasted Beauty of the World,a finalist for the 2012 Able Muse Book Award, extols the beautiful as readily as it expounds on the blemished. The reasoned commingles with the rambunctious, as with the speaker who declares that "our lives span diaper to diaper,/ and in between we piss on anyone/ we can." Little escapes notice in these poems of gutsy realism and formal deftnessthe speaker in "Bellefontaine Cemetery" exhortsteens to "party on peoples graves" and have "a few close shaves with county sheriffs," the carcass of a Ford truck intrudes on a hiking trails gully, the homeless are lullabied to "find rest behind our dumpster/ . . . score a fifth of bourbon/ and find your stomach full." Richard Newman brings us a collection that prods and soars with the grit and beauty of the real world.PRAISE FORALL THE WASTED BEAUTY OF THE WORLDAll the Wasted Beauty of the Worldis masterful and magnetic, from the "galaxy of gnats" hovering in the St. Louis twilight to the way a backwoods junkyard "gnaws on a pile of old Ford bones." He sees a group of bored high school kids with "nothing to lose/ but stupid summer jobs and innocence," and captures with perfect acuity how "September rain in streetlight/ silvers the cypress needles, scatters new dimes/ among the nuisance alley mulberry trees." Newmans poems, with their formal, lapidary precision, their indelible portraits of life in the cheap bars, back alleys, and roughhewn edges of the Midwest, surprise a hunger in us for a...
Binding: Paperback;102 pages; Publisher: Able Muse Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 282.39 g; Dimensions: N/A
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All the Wasted Beauty of the World,a finalist for the 2012 Able Muse Book Award, extols the beautiful as readily as it expounds on the blemished. The reasoned commingles with the rambunctious, as with the speaker who declares that "our lives span diaper to diaper,/ and in between we piss on anyone/ we can." Little escapes notice in these poems of gutsy realism and formal deftnessthe speaker in "Bellefontaine Cemetery" exhortsteens to "party on peoples graves" and have "a few close shaves with county sheriffs," the carcass of a Ford truck intrudes on a hiking trails gully, the homeless are lullabied to "find rest behind our dumpster/ . . . score a fifth of bourbon/ and find your stomach full." Richard Newman brings us a collection that prods and soars with the grit and beauty of the real world.PRAISE FORALL THE WASTED BEAUTY OF THE WORLDAll the Wasted Beauty of the Worldis masterful and magnetic, from the "galaxy of gnats" hovering in the St. Louis twilight to the way a backwoods junkyard "gnaws on a pile of old Ford bones." He sees a group of bored high school kids with "nothing to lose/ but stupid summer jobs and innocence," and captures with perfect acuity how "September rain in streetlight/ silvers the cypress needles, scatters new dimes/ among the nuisance alley mulberry trees." Newmans poems, with their formal, lapidary precision, their indelible portraits of life in the cheap bars, back alleys, and roughhewn edges of the Midwest, surprise a hunger in us for a...
Binding: Paperback;102 pages; Publisher: Able Muse Press; Classification: N/A; Weight: 282.39 g; Dimensions: N/A
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Items of footwear and/or clothing must be unworn and unwashed with the original labels attached. Also, footwear must be tried on indoors. Items of homeware including bedlinen, mattresses, and toppers, and pillows must be unused and in their original unopened packaging. This does not affect your statutory rights.
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