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- Book Title
- Just for a Thrill : Poems
- Publication Name
- Just for a Thrill
- Title
- Just for a Thrill
- Subtitle
- Poems
- Format
- Perfect
- EAN
- 9780814332900
- ISBN
- 9780814332900
- Publisher
- Wayne State University Press
- Genre
- Poetry
- Release Year
- 2005
- Release Date
- 30/11/2005
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 11.2 Oz
- Series
- African American Life Series
- Item Length
- 9in
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Item Height
- 0.3in
- Topic
- American / African American, General
- Item Width
- 6in
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
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"Geoffrey Jacques is a subtle, sophisticated poet who has read widely and has taken his cue from some of the most important vanguard poets of the past century and a half--Whitman, Breton, Césaire, Stein, Olson, Baraka, and others. He has digested and assimilated the lessons to be learned from their work while finding a way that is very much his own. The result is a distinctive contemporary voice whose angular mode of address and unerring touch edify as much as they impress. This book presents both in full flower. Techniques of detour and indirection productively encounter an aesthetic of sampling, quotation, and juxtaposition, a language-foregrounding tack that draws a range of domains and discourses into its mix. Song titles, clichés, catch phrases, bureaucratic boilerplate, advertising jargon, office chat, song lyrics, legalese, and other components of the linguistic atmosphere we live in find their way into the work, suggesting an overmediated, gone-before-it-gets-here present. Just for a Thrill is a substantial gathering of Jacques' work of recent years--a welcome breakthrough book by a poet whose work has appeared mainly in little magazines and limited chapbook editions over the past dozen or so years, a poet whose work deserves greater attention. We're fortunate to have so galvanic a collection of Jacques' poetry in an edition that promises to reach a wider audience." --From the foreword by Nathaniel Mackey
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Publisher
Wayne State University Press
ISBN-10
0814332900
ISBN-13
9780814332900
eBay Product ID (ePID)
48651258
Product Key Features
Book Title
Just for a Thrill : Poems
Format
Perfect
Language
English
Topic
American / African American, General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Poetry
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
11.2 Oz
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Lc Classification Number
Ps3610.A35685j87
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This substantial collection of poems by a longtime, well-known Detroit poet and cultural critic (now living in New York) presents socially and politically insightful poems. In a whole, Just for a Thrill is a massive critique project, a call to action. These are wise insights and earnest warnings from the pen of Geoffrey Jacques, a teacher who understands 'that friends need to be told only what they're ready to hear.'", Short, cryptic, rhythmic cadences weave throughout the 'language-foregrounding tack' of Geoffrey Jacques' disjunctive, compelling poetry in his new book, Just for a Thrill. Jacques' poems are filled with understated, oblique, sardonic political stiletto jabs that puncture the linguistic poetic status quo. His poems are astute with brilliant insights and right-on-the-money snapshots and observations into America's social, racial, and political world. Jacques' poems disturb with what they do and do not say, his poetic craft is always sure-footed. It is a pleasure to read his sometimes humorous, but ultimately disquieting, beautiful poems of dislocation. In this disconnected, tragic modern world of media frenzy, Jacques' poems provide us with a safe harbor from which we can observe and contemplate all the widespread ruin.", Geoffrey Jacques takes you right to the middle of things: like voices overheard, these poems seem cut out of the world, 'like something we once owned.' The losses embodied define a precise politics of position, of being in a world where what the poet wants most 'is people arguing on the sidewalk.'"
Copyright Date
2005
Lccn
2005-024940
Dewey Decimal
811/.6
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Series
African American Life Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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