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Usher: Poems |  | Author: B. H. Fairchild
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 128
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Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 0.7
ISBN: 0393065758
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780393065756
ASIN: 0393065758
Publication Date: May 4, 2009
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From Manhattan to the rural Midwest—one of our most distinguished poets offers a verbal cinema of America. Employing dramatic monologues, among other forms, Usher embraces a range of subject matter and modes, from the elegiac to the comic. At its heart, however, is the long poem “Trilogy,” consisting of three interrelated dramatic monologues spoken by a circus performer, a theological student and part-time usher, and Hart Crane. .
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USHER IS BREATHTAKING April 30, 2009
Ann Allyn Slessman (Michigan)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
USHER
B.H. Fairchild
W.W. Norton & Company, Inc.
ISBN: 978-0-393-06575-6
$24.95 - Hardback
122 pages
Reviewer: Annie Slessman
As I started my read of USHER by B.H. Fairchild I had no expectations. I had not read his previous works nor did I know his reputation as a poet. After reading The Gray Man and Frieda Pushnik - I was hooked.
B.H. Fairchild uses prose like David used the slingshot - he takes simple language and packs a real punch. As I read The Deer, I had to remind myself to breathe. The images he provokes are breathtaking and linger in the mind long after finishing the work.
In the poem entitled Cendrars, Fairchild describes phantom pain in a missing limb, "it is like memory, the memory that will not quite go away, that it is in effect the body's memory, but more, that it is like poetry, the phantom life: not there in any material way, yet intensely there to the reader, the amputee who has lost some nameless yet essential limb of existence, probably on the long, dark path out of childhood. Teary-eyed with excitement, the reader can say of the poem, yes, this is life, or better, this is life within life, but try to convince the passerby, the onlooker, who will simply observe the empty sleeve flapping in the wind and shake his head sadly."
If you are a lover of poetry, you will want to add this work to your library. If you do not as yet appreciate the art of poetry, this would be the book of poetry that would mold your love of poetry.
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