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Broken hallelujah : new and selected poems / Jack Butler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Butler, Jack, 1944-
- Standardized Title:
- Poems. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (78 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Huntsville : Texas Review Press, c2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Jack Butler's Broken Hallelujah: New and Selected Poems is a celebration that refuses to explain away pain and trouble, or to oversell the very transcendence it seeks. Its poems are always musical, whether formal, improvisational, or written according to the music of speech itself. Butler understands poetry more nearly as the essence of that speech than as one of its products, the heart of the ways we know each other. Some of these forms are as old as English, but the voice stays immediate; and whether dark or hopeful, comic or sober, passionate
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-937875-09-1
- OCLC:
- 847238568
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