Fish Singing Foxes (Paperback)

J.P. Dancing Bear

ISBN 10: 1912561409 / ISBN 13: 9781912561407

Published by Salmon Poetry, Co Clare, 2019

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Paperback. Fish Singing Foxes is two books in one. Half of the book is an exploration of Gacelas, a series of poems that Federico Garcia Lorca wrote with a then modern take on Ghazals. Dancing Bear advances the form with ghazel-like leaps of imagery and recurring themes. He uses the form to navigate a modern world of consumerism, social apathy and over-hype. The rhythms and repetitions draw the reader to join and lend their voice to the work. The other half of the book, experiments with form by creating a new series of poems that use a single line from a contemporary poets poem to create a new poem. Once again, Dancing Bear displays a mastery of words to which he can grow images using a single grafted branch while also paying homage to the original poem and author, while maintaining a level of gravitas coupled with whimsy. Throughout Fish Singing Foxes, Dancing Bear injects a sharp sense of humor that knows both the borders of playfulness and gallows humor. He presents two very different forms that reveal his revelry of language and image. Fish Singing Foxes is a delightful collection of two series of poems. One series borrows a line of poetry from a contemporary poet using it as an "on-ramp," a point of departure, and creates an entirely different poem from it. The second series serve Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fish Singing Foxes (Paperback)
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry, Co Clare
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1912561409
• ISBN 13: 9781912561407
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Fish Singing Foxes is a delightful collection of two series of poems. One series borrows a line of poetry from a contemporary poet using it as an "on-ramp," a point of departure, and creates an entirely different poem from it. The second series serves as homage to Federico Garcia Lorca's Gacela poems, expanding upon the original form, and creating a series of musical, haunting refrains.

About the Author

J.P. Dancing Bear is editor for the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press. He is the award-winning author of fourteen other collections of poetry. He lives in California.