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Facing the music : poems / by Bruce Berger.
LIBRA - Special PS3552.E7182 F3 1995
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Berger, Bruce.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 46 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lewiston, Idaho : Confluence Press, [1995]
- Summary:
- Music in Bruce Berger's poetry is more than subject matter, more than cadence; it is a metaphor for the examined life. A man's transformations are measured by the concerts he has witnessed. The depth of a woman's life is revealed by an unfinished painting that her son attempts to complete. A composer is gauged by his silences. Syncopating his measures, using poetic forms for their liberating sense of play, Berger makes music of the lives of a worker on a computerized assembly line, the developer of quark theory, and a father whose single remaining pleasure is crossword puzzles. Turning wordplay on such unpoetic subjects as practice rooms, embryo transplants, and money, Berger springs secrets from our uninspected commonplaces.
- ISBN:
- 1881090140
- 9781881090144
- OCLC:
- 32950334
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