| Another Way to Play: Poems 1960-2017 Contributor(s): Lally, Michael (Author), Myles, Eileen (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1609808304 ISBN-13: 9781609808303 Publisher: Seven Stories Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Lgbt |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2017056451 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (1.60 lbs) 560 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The collected works of a poet who bridges the rhythms and message of the beats, the disarming frankness of the New York School, and the fierce temerity of activist authors throughout the ages. From a '60s-era verse letter to John Coltrane to a 2017 examination of Life After Trump, Another Way to Play collects more than a half century of engaged, accessible, and deeply felt poetry from a writer both iconoclastic and embedded in the American tradition. In the vein of William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara, Lally eschews formality in favor of a colloquial idiom that pops straight from the page into the reader's synapses. This is the definitive collection of verse from a poet who has been around the world and back again: verse from the streets, from the the political arena, from Hollywood, from the depths of the underground, and from everywhere in between. Lally is not a poet of any one school or style, but a poet of his own inner promptings; whether casual, impassioned, or ironic, his words are unmistakably his own. Here is a poet who can hold two opposed ideas in mind simultaneously, and fuse them, with pathos and humor, into his own idiosyncratic verbal art. As Lally himself writes: I suffered, I starved, and so did my kids, / I did what I did for poetry I thought /and I never sold out, and even when I did / nobody bought. |