Joy Ride (Paperback)

Ron Slate

ISBN 10: 0887486908 / ISBN 13: 9780887486906

Published by Carnegie-Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh, 2023

About this Item

Paperback. Poems that navigate the intersection of history and memory, family lore, and world events. The poems of Joy Ride look for the connections and listen for the echoes between world events, family lore, work, mortality, and art. Ron Slate examines the intangibility of the past by exploring the notion of storytelling itselfthe stories we tell ourselves, our families, and our communities about the events that have shaped our experience. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Joy Ride (Paperback)
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press, Pittsburgh
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887486908
• ISBN 13: 9780887486906
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Poems that navigate the intersection of history and memory, family lore, and world events.
 
The poems of Joy Ride look for the connections and listen for the echoes between world events, family lore, work, mortality, and art. Ron Slate examines the intangibility of the past by exploring the notion of storytelling itself—the stories we tell ourselves, our families, and our communities about the events that have shaped our experience.
 

About the Author

Ron Slate was born in Quincy, Massachusetts. His poetry collections are The Incentive of the Maggot, nominated for both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and The Great Wave. He is the editor and host of the online literary journal On The Seawall and lives in Aquinnah, Massachusetts.