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Huddle, David

 
9780807129500: Grayscale: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets)
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ISBN 10: 080712950X ISBN 13: 9780807129500
Editorial: LSU Press, 2004

Sinopsis

In his compelling new collection, David Huddle writes, "We think / we stand in the vivid color of here and now / and view the past as drab black and white, / whereas the truth is - it’s our future / that’s the off-center, badly focused grayscale." Spiraling between the tenses of time, David Huddle creates in these vibrant poems a defense against the encroachment of age through the resources of language and memory, imagination and art. Moments recollected-and admittedly embellished-from his own life and family seem appealingly familiar: a teenage dance, Grandmama’s morning coffee, young daughters playing dolls. With age, wonder has become understanding, and so when intimations of his death arise in the midst of sharing a joke with his children, the poet shows us the comfort and peace that murky prospect may hold. Playful and fantastic narratives about penguin clans, Jane Goodall and the chimps, and what to do when it snaows offer wit and craft as further barriers against pain and despair. "In my family we were /all good at dreaming," Huddle’s closing poem notes. Undaunted, Huddle gives us in Grayscale not false hopes about our lives but a range of ways to transcend their limits.

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David Huddle has published four previous poetry volumes, most recently Summer Lake: New and Selected Poems. He is also the author of six books of fiction, including The Story of a Million Years, a Los Angeles Times Book Review best book of the year in 1999. Originally from Virginia, he served as an enlisted man in the U.S. Army in Germany and Vietnam and has taught at the University of Vermont since 1971 and at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference since 1985.

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Editorial
LSU Press
Año de publicación
2004
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ISBN 10 
080712950X
ISBN 13 
9780807129500
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Número de páginas
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9780807129494: Grayscale: Poems (Southern Messenger Poets S.)

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ISBN 10:  0807129496 ISBN 13:  9780807129494
Editorial: Louisiana State University Press, 2004
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