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Grace by John Barr (1999, Trade Paperback)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Like New
- Seller Notes
- “Clean Unmarked Copy Inscribed On Front Flyleaf (141)”
- Type
- Poetry
- Signed By
- John Barr
- Signed
- Yes
- Inscribed
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9781885266811
- Book Title
- Grace
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Red Hen Press
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.5 in
- Genre
- Poetry, Philosophy, Fiction
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 8.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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A song of the human spirit responding to beauty and adversity, Grace is an epic poem for America at the millennium.Grace is the master song, the last telling of Ibn Opcit, a Caribbean poet condemned to die by torture. In a series of jailhouse monologues, we hear him comment wryly on justice, on creation, on death, and on life after death: One little theory or theorylette hold dat de long oblong of de grave is not a place of cold and silence. It be a place of popcorn and comfort. De saved get to see first runs. De lost must watch Ishtar for eternity. In Grace, not only does John Barr handle the demanding form of the long poem with skill and panache, but he delivers a one-of-a-kind linguistic tour de force. Spoken mostly in a Caribbean dialect and rollicking with word play, Grace achieves a riotous level of verbal inventiveness. I don't know any other work with which to compare it unless we think of it as a kind of funky Finnegan's Wake in verse with palm trees. You have never read anything quite like this wildly sustained imaginative drama. Set those one-page lyrics aside and dive into this momentous feat.-Billy Collins, author of Picnic, Lightning John Barr's Grace is an incredibly risky poem about white American consciousness in the instant of attempting sympathy with black American (in this case Caribbean) consciousness. This cross-cultural ambition couldn't be any more vertiginous, but that doesn't mean that it's not crucial for the regional literature. Barr's courage and zeal for the project are astonishing, and his ambition should be the wonder of writers and readers north and south of the Panama Canal.-Rick Moody, author of The IceStormJohn Barr has pursued parallel careers as poet and investment banker for the past 25 years. He has founded the country's largest natural gas marketing company and a prominent investment-banking boutique. He is President Emeritus of the Poetry Society of America, and Chairman of the Board of Bennington College. Story Line Press published the trade edition of his first book, The Hundred Fathom Curve, in 1997. He lives with his wife and three children in Westchester Co
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Red Hen Press
ISBN-10
1885266812
ISBN-13
9781885266811
eBay Product ID (ePID)
935041
Product Key Features
Book Title
Grace
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Poetry, Philosophy, Fiction
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.5 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
8.3 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3552.A731837g7
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
99-041978
Dewey Decimal
811/.54
Dewey Edition
21
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