The Chime [Paperback]

Cort Day (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2001

The Chime takes as its subject the mind’s attempt to situate itself in language. It insistently erects a formal dwelling, one haunted by children, icons of old world orders, and by the facts of its author’s life.

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About the Author

Cort Day’s poems have appeared in Poetry Daily, AGNI, Boston Review, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence, and Verse, and in many other publications. He lives in Philadelphia and works in New York City.

Product Details

• Paperback: 66 pages
• Publisher: Alice James Books; 1st edition (February 1, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1882295293
• ISBN-13: 978-1882295296
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,972,461 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars As cool as early Beastie Boys, June 14, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: The Chime (Paperback)

The poems in this book are edgy, funny, and
touching. Slightly abstract, like a dream is abstract...
Really smart work.

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars actually, January 29, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: The Chime (Paperback)

this is a brilliant book ... the attention in it is the closest thing we have to straight visionary poetry, in the strictest sense: that is, poetry that takes on as its main project the attempt to penetrate through word and image to the "other side." I found reading this book to be a hallucinatory journey; the language in it dominated my way of looking at the world for days afterward.

And not to dignify a previous review on this page, but in fact the book won one of the Alice James prizes, which aren't run or chosen by anyone having anything to do with an MFA program that this author went to. Accusations of nepotism simply don't apply in this case ... and frankly, even if the book HAD been published by a friend, why should that matter? It's a fabulous and valuable work, and we should all be grateful that it was published, and be eager to see what the author comes up with next.