Fifth Season (Provincetown Poets)
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| Rating | : | 4.57 (568 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0944854370 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 135 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-20 |
| Language | : | English |
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Bradford Sumner said Breath on a pane of glass. was how the russian poet Mandelstam described poetry - the suddenvisible display of warm human breath on the cold glass - and that iswhat these poems are like - human, warm, startlingly real. This isone of my favorite volumes of poetry and I urge anyone interestedto buy a copy. Mandelstam's widow once said "great art is born ofgreat pain" and that seems to be the truth here as well.
Matias died in 1996.. Poetry. A simply and beautifully produced book from Provincetown Arts Press. Fifth Season chronicles a literal struggle to survive, the struggle of a poet living with AIDS to keep life meaningful. Frank Bidart lauds the fact that Matias' struggle to survive and the search to find manifestation on the page here are one: new, tender, quick. Matias' poems have been anthologized in THINGS SHAPED IN PASSING: MORE POETS FOR LIFE WRITING FROM THE AIDS PANDEMIC, and he was the recipient of a poetry fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown in 1994-95. (Robert Pinsky). Sunsets, gay bars, Myambutal, histories both personal and communal, sex and last wills and testaments coexist in poems that are refuse to look away from the beautiful, even while t
"In his short time, David measured up to his promise remarkable; this is a rich, deeply intellligent book, a triumph of art and feeling." -- Robert Pinsky