Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty [Audiobook, CD] [Audio CD]

Joshua Beckman (Author), Matthew Rohrer (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 24, 2003

After their Fall 2002 whirlwind tour supporting their book of collaborative poems, Nice Hat. Thanks, these acclaimed poets return with a collection of the finest new poems created live as they rambled high and low. Covering such topics as hillbillies, baseball, capitalism, paradise, fruit, spy satellites, and more, the CD is an uproarious and continually surprising audio record of two vivid imaginations working overtime for audiences in no less than 19 states.

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About the Author

Joshua Beckman was born in New Haven, Connecticut. His previous books include Your Time Has Come, and two collaborations with Matthew Rohrer. He lives in Seattle and New York. Matthew Rohrer was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and grew up in Oklahoma. He attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, University College Dublin, and the University of Michigan, where he won the Avery Hopwood Award for poetry. His first book, A Hummock in the Malookas, was a winner of the National Poetry Series and chosen as a Publishers Weekly Best Book of 1995. Mary Oliver called his work "beautiful and disquieting," and Harvard Review notes that his poems are "everywhere marked by freshness and originality." He has appeared on NPR's All Things Considered - The Book Show, and is a poetry editor of Fence.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Verse Press (September 24, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972348786
• ISBN-13: 978-0972348782
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,681,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Adventures While Preaching the Gospel of Beauty (Audio CD)

Their lovely voices, their interactive energy of resistance, they're wonderful. Oregon and peas and carrots will make you long for more. Be in their presence. Begin today.