| Afterimage Contributor(s): Krisak, Len (Author) |
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ISBN: 1939574064 ISBN-13: 9781939574060 Publisher: Measure Press Inc. OUR PRICE: $19.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: January 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - General |
| Dewey: 811.6 |
| LCCN: 2013957221 |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6" W x 9" (0.63 lbs) 86 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Afterimage, by Len Krisak, is a masterfully-crafted collection of poems in which we see the persistence of history into the present - the ancient market under the polish of urban architecture, the thrum of Roman crowds amid present-day Boston. Horace and Ovid exist alongside Jeopardy and Clark Kent. Whether in a grand, public mode or quietly elegiac and personal, the poems record our contemporary life, often noting the images from such a distant and literary past strikingly alive in the present. From "the topless towers of Troy" to "the trolley's stair step lip," Krisak writes with a metrical and formal eloquence. His voice is both learned and colloquial, demonstratating a careful attention to language and its power to move us. |