One can always count on Richard Newman, in his poems and in the lyrics of his songs, to give this tattered world a fair shake but also to give it to his readers strong and straight. In his fine new collection, Blues at the End of the World, even ancient forms are coaxed to sing a gritty, modern ache as Newman tackles topics large and smallabandoned Shinto shrines, new marriage, aging, Americas shameful history in the Pacific, how living many years abroad changes a personin masterful haiku, tanka, and haibun tucked among the sonnets and free verse. Few poets could so viscerally conjure the Saigon smog as a speaker lifts his baby "to the blood orange dawn, / baptizing [him] in beauty frothed with poison," or make a dead dog beautiful as it floats, bloated, around an island in its "funeral shawl of flies." Blues at the End of the World brims with portraits of loss and stubbornness, with delicate reports of a rough world, hewn by sorrow.Francesca Bell, author of What Small SoundIn Blues at the End of the World, Richard Newman takes us around the globe and deep inside the human heart. With the memory of an exile, he connects the past and present in surprising ways, weaving personal narratives into lush landscapes that capture the flavor and tang of living in new places. Newman navigates between "unhappiness or hope," with humor and humility, erasing borders as hes crossing themnot a tourist, not a native, he is our ideal guide.Jim Daniels, author of The Luck of the Fall and...

Binding: Paperback;84 pages; Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC - KDP; Classification: N/A; Weight: 246.1 g; Dimensions: N/A

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