Bryce Passage - Softcover

Morris, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0972478574 ISBN 13: 9780972478571

Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press, 2004

Synopsis

Poetry. In this book the theme of journeying is predominant, as is the idea of coming to know the self in dialogue with others. The poems early in this collection tend to focus on art, artists, or the act of making, whether in the elevated sphere of the Jules Olitski-Clement Greenberg variety, or in the earthier realms of the Beach Boys, Porn Queens, and Feelies lead singer who is discussed by Linus (not the Peanuts character, but the failed artist of Greek myth). After several poems that concern self-portraiture and the act of making art as a form of person construal, come poems concerning growing up, traveling, and work. The collection ends with poems that offer signs of homecoming or redemption after a struggle that has involved personal loss and misfortune.

About this title

About the Author

Daniel Morris's poetry has appeared in many journals including Agni, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, Southern Humanities Review, River City, and others. Morris is an associate professor of English at Purdue University, and has published scholarly books on William Carlos Williams and on how contemporary American authors have responded to modern painting.

Review

Each line is a high-speed search through charged silence rather than an amble along a pre-imagined path. -- Chuck Wachtel

Morris identifies a crisis which forms our lives, but has had no poetic voice until this "diary." -- Allen Grossman

These poems are smart, sassy, self-reflexive, satiric, and strangely soulful. And such play is always a pleasure. -- Norman Finkelstein

About this edition

• Publisher: Marsh Hawk Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0972478574
• ISBN 13: 9780972478571
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40