Traveling at High Speeds: Poems (New Issues Press Poetry Series) - Softcover

Rybicki, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0932826458 ISBN 13: 9780932826459

Publisher: New Issues Press, 1996

Synopsis

Poetry. The kinetic energy of John Rybicki's poems is his unmistakable signature.His poem "Traveling at High Speeds" opens with the lines, "Some night my body takes the shape of this city." That urban shape is the shape of John Rybicki's poetry as well. The city in question is, of course, Detroit, but whether Detroit itself is the subject, as it is in many of his poems, or not, the cadence of its streets informs the slashing attack of Rybicki's vivid language.

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From the Publisher

Perhaps the most intriguing book of poems to come out of Detroit since Phillip Levine and Jim Daniels. Hard-nosed city poems matched with lyrical country poems. Poems of work, love, family, struggle against illness. Funny, tender, full of poignant longing.

About the Author

John Rybicki was born and raised in Detroit. He has since lived and worked on farms in southwestern Michigan near the small towns of Vicksburg, Grand Junction, and Richland. His poems have appeared extensively in The Quartlerly, Poetry East, New York Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly, and Calaban.

About this edition

• Publisher: New Issues Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0932826458
• ISBN 13: 9780932826459
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 50