The Hundred Fathom Curve - Softcover

Barr, John

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ISBN 10: 1885266383 ISBN 13: 9781885266385

Publisher: Story Line Press, 1997

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About the Author:

The poems of John Barr have appeared in many magazines, and have been published in six collections: The War Zone (1989), Natural Wonders (1991), The Dial Painters (1994), Centennial Suite (1998), all by Warwick Press; and The Hundred Fathom Curve (1997), and Grace (1999), by Story Line Press. Barr is President Emeritus of the Poetry Society of America, has taught in the Graduate Writing Program of Sarah Lawrence College, and was appointed in 2004 the first president of The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. His most recent collection, The Hundred Fathom Curve: New & Collected Poems, was published by Red Hen Press in 2011.

Review:

Articles Of War
Bird Voice In The Halls Of 5 A.m.
Body Language
The Brotherhood Of Morticians
Deer Xing
The Dial Painters
Diving The East River
Divining The Dupage
Driving In Rain
Exploring The Pastime Reaches And Beyond
Flounder
Flyways
Gloria Visits The Fry House
Hunting For A Tool
In The Carboniferous House
Jellyfish
News
The Orb Weaver
Restoration
Sign Shop, Sing Sing
St. Augustine
Still Life
Surburban Triptych
Teamsters
Terrapin
The Water Bed
Wisteria
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

Early in John Barr's first collection of poetry, a note informs us that "the hundred fathom curve is the line of soundings used on nautical charts to mark the limits of the continental shelf and the beginning of the abyssal descent." In a similar fashion, many of his poems map the body's descent, tracing "the long parabola from helplessness to helplessness."

He writes poems that are deliciously thick with language and facts. As one might expect from a writer who served in the Navy, celestial and marine imagery predominates. -- The New York Times Book Review, Philip Gambone

The Hundred Fathom Curve takes its title from the line of soundings used on nautical charts to mark the limits of the continental shelf and the beginnings of the abyssal descent. Poet John Barr journeys over that line, from the idyllic midwestern hills of his boyhood to a destroyer in Vietnam, where he finds the wreckage of a downed warplane. Collected from three fine-press editions, The Hundred Fathom Curve marks the long-awaited trade edition from a poet deserving a much wider audience for his work. No house outlasts its hill,/Here, especially, fifty years will see/bones, the basement scar,/something in its place. -- Midwest Book Review

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