Poetry. "At once unnervingly learned and boldly feelingful, Richard Blevins is a hero of the contemporary long-form poem, and CAPTIVITY NARRATIVES' driven reconsiderations of the disappeared careers of photographer Fred Holland Day and poet Adelaide Crapsey have a sweep and an intimacy that excite from line to alert line. With their heady synchronies and hyperlucid lyric fragments, their unearthings and upendings, their questing meditations and meditative narratives, their bursts of aphorism and doses of tonic fact, these are poems of an unusually welcoming intelligence and of an unassuming mastery. 'If you want to keep a secret, print it in a poem,' Blevins writes, and fortunate is any reader privy to the confidences volunteered in these generous, essential pages"--Gary Lutz. Richard Blevins' FOGBOW BRIDGE: SELECTED POEMS, 1972-1999 was published by Pavement Saw.
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At once unnervingly learned and boldly feelingful, Richard Blevins is a hero of the contemporary long-form poem, and Captivity Narratives driven reconsiderations of the disappeared careers of photographer Fred Holland Day and poet Adelaide Crapsey have a sweep and an intimacy that excite from line to alert line. With their heady synchronies and hyperlucid lyric fragments, their unearthings and upendings, their questing meditations and meditative narratives, their bursts of aphorism and doses of tonic fact, these are poems of an unusually welcoming intelligence and of an unassuming mastery. If you want to keep a secret, print it in a poem, Blevins writes, and fortunate is any reader privy to the confidences volunteered in these generous, essential pages. --Gary Lutz, Author of Stories in the Worst Way and I Looked Alive
With a few disparate lines, Rich Blevins invokes an era, and with them we see peripherally (as the poet similarly characterizes Day s own images) two nearly forgotten artists, Fred Holland Day and Adelaide Crapsey, and their imaginary narratives. At times a surreal journey through time, space, and history, at others a perceptive exploration of sensibilities, the Captivity Narratives is both lyrical and elegiac. --Patricia J. Fanning, author of Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day
With a few disparate lines, Rich Blevins invokes an era, and with them we see peripherally (as the poet similarly characterizes Day s own images) two nearly forgotten artists, Fred Holland Day and Adelaide Crapsey, and their imaginary narratives. At times a surreal journey through time, space, and history, at others a perceptive exploration of sensibilities, the Captivity Narratives is both lyrical and elegiac. --Patricia J. Fanning, author of Through an Uncommon Lens: The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day
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Richard Blevins Fogbow Bridge: Selected Poems, 1972-1999 was published by Pavement Saw. He edited two volumes of the Charles Olson/Robert Creeley correspondence for Black Sparrow. His dissertation is on Will Henry. He lives and teaches, in western Pennsylvania, with his wife Martha Koehler and their two daughters.
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