Sixty-Seven Poems For Downtrodden Saints - Hardcover

Micheline, Jack

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0966669606 ISBN 13: 9780966669602

Publisher: FMSBW, 1999

Synopsis

"Sixty-Seven Poems For Downtrodden Saints" is the last book completed by poet, Jack Micheline, prior to his death. It is an important publication and one of Micheline's finest, representing a great variety of Micheline's body of work, and includes many unique photos and graphics of "Beat Generation" writers. This book is a treasure.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

Jack Micheline spoke to the poet in everyone in an age when business is usual and poetry a sideshow. He was authentic street and so we are witness to the voice of the undefeated. - Jack Hirschman

Takes a simple word makes it bleed lets it laugh the eye cries tears that tear geographies apart-apart from any system - Jack Micheline cuts his words from gut-strings to make the music of his poems. - Ruth Weiss

Jack Micheline was a true minstrel. A wandering poet singing timeless songs for our own sad, desperate time. - Diane di Prima

Jack Micheline spirited bop poet of the streets, moonbeams, the human cri & souls. One of the Beat comets that blazed a luminous trail. - Anne Waldman

Jack Micheline gregarious, boisterous, unstoppable, his energy, edgy optimism and righteous anger gave him a high-octane approach to life. Over the years, he endured, scrambled in the margins, grumbled against the suits who ran everything but couldn't touch freedom to write and paint his heartful, tender ire and optimistic resilience. Like one of those club fighters up against the ropes, Jack always rallied to win another fight. - David Meltzer.

From the Back Cover:

Jack Micheline's poetic diction, unencumbered by the trappings of spiritual violation and rapture, salvages lost innocence and simplicity. His poetry invites us to see the face of God in souls suffering on our city streets: the disparaged and derelict, the destitute and desperate - all those denied dignity by contempt and chaos. Fr. Alberto Huerta, S.J.

About this edition

• Publisher: FMSBW
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0966669606
• ISBN 13: 9780966669602
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 245