Dogwatch - Hardcover

Gwynn, R S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1939574072 ISBN 13: 9781939574077

Publisher: Measure Press Inc., 2014

Synopsis

With his trademark wit, formal dexterity, and polymorphic interest in the world, R.S. Gwynn writes of an America of malapropisms and bad taste and a literary past ripe for recycling. Whether he conjures contractors and insurance agents suffering in a satire of Dante's Inferno, fashions a sonnet taken from TV-listing reductions of Shakespeare, or pays tribute (and more satire) to the living and the dead in a moving set of elegies, his mastery of the old masters and of his art is sincere and irreverent, as he knows the masters too must have been to their readers. Gwynn is a Juvenal for our age, pointing out our follies; yet his demonic, demotic energy has an elegiac timor mortis about it that reminds us nothing is more serious than a joke. In that sense, Gwynn is a poet for everyone, and the guiding spirit in this collection is at once elegiac and wry.

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About the Author

R.S. (Sam) Gwynn did his undergraduate work at Davidson College. He earned an M.A. and an M.F.A. from the University of Arkansas. Since 1976 he has taught at Lamar University, where he is University Professor English and Poet-in-Residence. Over the years he has contributed poetry and criticism to many journals, including The Hudson Review, Poetry, and The Sewanee Review, and is the recipient of the Michael Braude Award for Light Verse from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.. He is the editor of four anthologies of criticism, the Penguin Pocket Anthology series, and (with April Lindner) Contemporary American Poetry. He lives in Beaumont, Texas, with his wife Donna. They have three sons and seven grandchildren.

Edition details

• Publisher: Measure Press Inc.
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1939574072
• ISBN 13: 9781939574077
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 122