The Interlude - Signed And Inscribed Presentation Fables of the Twice-Fallen Angels

D.W. Fenza

ISBN 10: 0913123226 / ISBN 13: 9780913123225

Published by Galileo Press, Baltimore MD, 1989

About this Item

Galileo Press, Baltimore MD, 1989, 68 pgs. First/First in Very Good+ Photo illustrated wraps, with some shelfwear, small moisture stain and a rectangular bit of toning to inside cover, and top edge . (Please review photos). The author has Signed on title pg. A long form poem. This is a unique Copy, in that it was also Signed, Inscribed, dated in year of publication to Carol Houck Smith. During her 60+ year career at WW Norton, Ms Smith was the Editor of multiple National Book Award winners and U.S. Poets Laureate. Also includes a publishers notice of upcoming titles from the Galileo Press addressed to Ms. Smith. All books bubble wrapped and shipped promptly in a box.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Interlude - Signed And Inscribed Presentation Fables of the Twice-Fallen Angels
• Publisher: Galileo Press, Baltimore MD
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0913123226
• ISBN 13: 9780913123225
• Binding: Photo illustrated wraps
• Edition: First.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: NA
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Book by Fenza, D. W.

Reviews

Readers who enjoy traditional verse will delight in this book-length poem, a highly concentrated farce. A modern lawyer, "whom we shall leave / unnamed," stumbles through the ruins of his marriage, failed affairs, unemployment and atheism; attempts to cheat the system backfire. This anti-hero is as utterly bemused by contemporary America as if he had somehow been transplanted from another age. His "twice-fallen patron saint" is Archimedes, the Greek mathematician and inventor who, when the Romans invaded, "went home / to take a bath and sulk, to formulate, / in simple algebra, how a heavy crown / displaces the self." Fenza roots the philosophical meditations of his first book in picturesque imagery: "It's good to be the king--when the world, if she desires your attention, must come / to you. One king was so impressed with his / hefty serving of beef that he knighted it; / but as rush hour began, our leading man / drank cheap gin for dinner, blinking / and blanking out on a wobbly kitchen chair." Recurrent topics, such as suicide, various angels with their fallible attributes and Archimedes, and intimate letters to "X" unite the numbered sections here, but most images are topical and fleeting, enhancing the comic voice.
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