Bleak Music: Poems & Photographs of the American Southwest - Softcover

Alfier, Jeffrey C.; Thomas, Larry D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692718915 ISBN 13: 9780692718919

Publisher: Blue Horse Press, 2016

Synopsis

This is what Ekphrastic Poetry is supposed to do: go beyond the visual image of the photo and make the scene come alive in language. Once again, I find in Bleak Music this balance of sound, rhythm, lineation, and stanzaic construction that defines good poetry.— Nelson Sager, Ph.D.Piper Professor Award WinnerProfessor Emeritus of English, Sul Ross State University

About this title

About the Author:

Jeffrey Alfier is winner of the 2014 Kithara Book Prize, judged by Dennis Maloney. He has been nominated for eight Pushcarts, and is a two-time nominee for the UK’s Forward Prize for Poetry. In 2013 he was selected as a finalist for the Press 53 Poetry Contest. Publication credits include Copper Nickel, Crab Orchard Review, Iron Horse Literary Review, Kestrel, Hotel Amerika, Permafrost, Poetry Ireland Review, South Carolina Review, Southwestern American Literature, and Spoon River Poetry Review, and Texas Review. He is author of two collections of Southwest poems: The Wolf Yearling, and Idyll for a Vanishing River. He is also author of The Storm Petrel -- Poems of Ireland, and most recently, The Red Stag at Carrbridge -- Scotland Poems. Larry D. Thomas, a member of the Texas Institute of Letters, served as the 2008 Texas Poet Laureate. He has published thirty collections of poetry and in many of the most prestigious journals in the nation. As If Light Actually Matters: New & Selected Poems, the most comprehensive collection of his poetry to date, was issued by Texas Review Press in 2015. Among his many honors/awards are two Texas Review Poetry Prizes, two Western Heritage Awards (National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum), the Violet Crown Book Award (Writers’ League of Texas), a Violet Crown Book Awards Special Citation, nomination for the 2007 Poets’ Prize (Nicholas Roerich Museum), and eight Pushcart Prize nominations. His Web site address is www.larrydthomas.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Blue Horse Press
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0692718915
• ISBN 13: 9780692718919
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 60