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Neighbor Blood: Poems
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Neighbor Blood: Poems Hardcover - 1996

by Richard Frost

From the rear cover

Neighbor Blood, Richard Frost's newest collection of poems, demonstrates a fluid ease within a range of poetic idioms - ballad meter, free verse, the sonnet, and a "dwindling" sestina. Frost, also a jazz musician, writes poems that seem loose, genuine, off-the-cuff - like jazz riffs that just "happen". But in poetry - as in music - Frost has earned his ease with practice. Frost's free verse includes several poems on jazz, which spotlight - and demonstrate - the deceptively casual attitude of syncopated rhythm. "Jazz for Kirby", a long poem at the book's center, for instance, formally echoes the precision - and the necessity - of the jazz drummer and his distinctive diction: "'I mean. A dup, a-dup-a and a-dup-a zit tah./Like when it's a-poppa poppa pie, baby, you carry everything.'" With a matter-of-fact sincerity and endearing self-deprecating humor, Richard Frost surveys childhood mysteries, adolescent angst, family erosions - the lonely comedies of our survival. Tremendously tender, these poems are parables concerned with the moral challenges of everyday life.

Details

  • Title Neighbor Blood: Poems
  • Author Richard Frost
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 88
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Sarabande Books, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
  • Date 1996-07
  • ISBN 9780964115149 / 096411514X
  • Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.29 x 6.24 x 0.52 in (23.60 x 15.85 x 1.32 cm)
  • Themes
    • Topical: Death/Dying
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96004300
  • Dewey Decimal Code 811.54

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 10/01/1996, Page 82
  • Publishers Weekly, 08/26/1996, Page 93

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