Except By Falling
DOUGHERTY, Sean Thomas
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Quantity: 1From Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
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Quantity: 1About this Item
First edition, a paperback original. Fine copy. Inscribed by Dougherty to a fellow poet: "12-13-2000, For - -- Who's poems of Philadelphia rivers, pigeons, trumpet players, + sneakers slung over a line helped to create everything I write - for a good man a great poet - yr pal Sean Thomas". Winner of the 2000 Pinyon Press Poetry Prize. Seller Inventory # 95210
Bibliographic Details
Title: Except By Falling
Publisher: Pinyon Press, Grand Junction, (CO)
Publication Date: 2000
Binding: Softcover
Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
Yet also within this book, there is a litany of cultural and political references: Eurydice and the Argentine Amnesty, Eric Dolphy and Pablo Neruda, Miles Davis and Marc Chagall, the Zootsuit riots and the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.--as well as Dougherty's articulation of the struggles against racism that his own interracial upbringing calls him to engage.
Most of the poems are written in a variety of traditional "closed" forms designed to reflect the reality of economic and social barriers that impede the lives of working people--as if these barriers can be resisted by their appropriation, how they can be changed into a form of singing, a form of song.
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