God's Bicycle - Softcover

Peckham, Joel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 193885361X ISBN 13: 9781938853616

Publisher: FutureCycle Press, 2015

Synopsis

“A Chevy up on blocks is only an eyesore to the faithless.”—from “Husks” In GOD’S BICYCLE, Joel Peckham’s fifth collection of poetry, he offers a spiritual road mix for 21st-century America. In poems that travel from the heartland through Appalachia to New England, he sings a song crafted from his own strange brew of off-kilter, irreverent psalms, prayers, hymns, aubades, and elegies in praise and homage to a fragmented but beautiful landscape and people. Drawing as much from rockabilly as Whitman, these poems are always intense and often exuberant, even in their struggle for the kind of hope that can “rise green and leafy from a bitter soil.”

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About the Author

Joel Peckham is a scholar, essayist and poet who has published a book of essays, two books of poetry, and two chapbooks His work has appeared in many literary and academic journals including The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, The Black Warrior Review, Riverteeth, The North American Review and American Literature Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Regional Literature and Creative Writing at Marshall University.

About this edition

• Publisher: FutureCycle Press
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 193885361X
• ISBN 13: 9781938853616
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 82
• Editor: Kistner Diane