Scrambled Eggs & Whiskey: Poems, 1991-1995
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| Rating | : | 4.22 (869 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1556591098 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 140 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Powerful new poems by one of North America's premier poets.
. Adrienne Rich has called Hayden Carruth "a part of our country's poetic treasure," and his other admirers include Galway Kinnell and Wendell Berry. A poet's poet, Carruth spins simple lines full of possible meanings, lines that stick in the reader's mind a long time. In "Particularity," for instance, Carruth writes of "this invisible / hereness where I am the center / of mystery." Juxtaposing the mysterious with the tangible, Carruth is writing better than ever
"Poems with great range" according to Eric Maroney. From the title of Carruth's Collection, Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey, the reader expects a Bukowskiesque collection of poems, but in actuality Carruth's work has great dexterity and range of emotion, is quite supple in its expressive quality, and has the capacity to do a lot of heavy, emotional lifting in a confined space. In this collection, three major themes are explored: Carruth's coming death, his marriage to a much younger woman, (and her fate afte. My Poet In my 91st year Carruth speaks to me as no other has. His subjects, of course are pertinent to me, and his syllables into words into lines, fit into the rhythm of my being.,. Trees, snow, wine, and a younger wife T. Burrows This was a National Book Award winner from 1996. It was given to me as a present, and I kept it at work, reading a poem here and there until I finished it. I would place this in the confessional school of poetry, and throw in dollops of aging romanticism and neo-hippie Gaia worship as well. But this sounds as if I am making fun of it, when in fact I enjoyed many of these.Carruth lives in a house in the country - Vermont or Upstate N.Y. by the sound of