Luminous in the Owl's Rib - Softcover

Kalamaras, George

Softcover

ISBN 10: 194801761X ISBN 13: 9781948017619

Publisher: Dos Madres Press, 2019

Synopsis

Poetry. "'What are the tones, the minor notes,' he asks, 'dizzying me tonight, from a cafe / fifty-five years late?' That's a question George Kalamaras elucidates time and time again throughout a dazzling collection of scars and stars, worries and wonders--tributes to brother Surrealists like Nikos Gatsos and jazz greats like Sonny Clark, too--figures who 'were meant to caress the keys // inside the soft places we show no one.' These poems form a series of long-after-midnight, everyone-else-in-the-world-is-asleep broadcasts that slip between laughter and tears like shortwave messages from faraway, incantatory and incandescent. 'How many moons' can we find 'in the golden yellow dead?' More than we thought. George Kalamaras sets off to discover them all."--Joseph Gastiger

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About the Author

George Kalamaras, former Poet Laureate of Indiana (2014- 2016), is the author of sixteen books of poetry, nine of which are full-length including LUMINOUS IN THE OWL'S RIB (Dos Madres Press, 2019), KINGDOM OF THROAT-STUCK LUCK (Elixir Press, 2011), THE RECUMBENT GALAXY (C&R Press, 2010), GOLD CARP JACK FRUIT MIRRORS (The Bitter Oleander Press, 2008), and EVEN THE JAVA SPARROWS CALL YOUR HAIR (Quale Press, 2004). He has received several national prizes for his poetry, and he spent several months in India in 1994 on an Indo-U.S. Advanced Research Fellowship. He is Professor of English at Purdue University Fort Wayne (formerly Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne), where he has taught since 1990. He lives with his wife, writer Mary Ann Cain, and their beagle, Bootsie, in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dos Madres Press
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 194801761X
• ISBN 13: 9781948017619
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 146