Rooted in everyday experiences, Campbell McGrath’s poems have a brevity and immediacy that adapt effectively to audiobook listening. His images are literal and direct, with few metaphors or “deeper meanings,” and the poems don’t require repeated listening. McGrath’s voice doesn’t sound professionally trained, but he is a good interpreter of his poems’ rhythms and emphases, and if you like his work, you’ll surely appreciate his delivery. He does at times fall into that tone of spellbound reverence characteristic of so many academic poetry readings. But the prevailing high spirits and good humor of this collection will endear it to many listeners. D.A.W. © AudioFile 2019, Portland, Maine
A major new collection from one of our best loved, most celebrated, and most original poets.
Deeply personal but also expansive in its imaginative scope, Nouns & Verbs brings together thirty-five years of writing from Campbell McGrath, one of America's most highly lauded poets. Offering a hint of where he's headed while charting the territory already explored, McGrath gives us startlingly inventive new poems while surveying his previous work-lyric poems, prose poems, and a searing episodic personal epic, “An Odyssey of Appetite,” exploring America's limitless material and spiritual hungers.
Nothing is too large or small to remain untouched by McGrath's voracious intellect and deep empathy-everything from Japanese eggplant to a can of Schaefer beer to the smokestacks of Chicago comes in for a close and perceptive look even as McGrath crosses borders and boundaries, investigating the enduring human experiences of love and loss.
A book that stands on its own solid foundation, Nouns & Verbs captures the voice and vision of a truly singular poet.
A major new collection from one of our best loved, most celebrated, and most original poets.
Deeply personal but also expansive in its imaginative scope, Nouns & Verbs brings together thirty-five years of writing from Campbell McGrath, one of America's most highly lauded poets. Offering a hint of where he's headed while charting the territory already explored, McGrath gives us startlingly inventive new poems while surveying his previous work-lyric poems, prose poems, and a searing episodic personal epic, “An Odyssey of Appetite,” exploring America's limitless material and spiritual hungers.
Nothing is too large or small to remain untouched by McGrath's voracious intellect and deep empathy-everything from Japanese eggplant to a can of Schaefer beer to the smokestacks of Chicago comes in for a close and perceptive look even as McGrath crosses borders and boundaries, investigating the enduring human experiences of love and loss.
A book that stands on its own solid foundation, Nouns & Verbs captures the voice and vision of a truly singular poet.
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BN ID: | 2940170097722 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 04/02/2019 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |
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