The Frozen Sea: Poems [Paperback]

Joe David Bellamy (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

The poet's exploration in these poems shifts between what we may see on the surface of an object or a situation and the components that move deep within or expand far outside--discernible only to the poet's inner eye and to the reader's imagination. Telephone wires become grid marks of land and life; death becomes the pause in the frantic existence of a hummingbird or a human; fire plays moths and humans as fools in their desire for the moon. Bellamy crafts universes out of the simple earth that we stumble over each day.

Review

Amnesia Fondly Remembered
December Light
Education
The End Of Archeology
Epitaphs
From The Biography Of The Hummingbird
The Frozen Sea
The Graveyard At Dusk
The Heart Is Just A Pump
I Have Just Run ... Fr. Jogging At Evergreen Cemetery
The Light's True Inertia
Lost In The Junkyard
Many Cardholders Pass Away
Maps
The Memory Of Singing
The Message
The Moth's Attraction To The Light
Not Unlike The Runner
Opening Up
A Rainy Night At The Holiday Inn
Semper Fields
Solar Eclipse
Spring Hits Upstate New York
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 42 pages
• Publisher: Orchises Pr (February 1988)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0914061062
• ISBN-13: 978-0914061069
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,932,758 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Joe David Bellamy won the Editors' Book Award for his novel Suzi Sinzinnati, and his new novel Green Freedom is forthcoming from Narrative Library. He is also the author of fifteen other books, including Kindred Spirits, Atomic Love, Literary Luxuries, and The New Fiction. He is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle and served as Director of the Literature Program of the National Endowment for the Arts. His essays, fiction, poetry, and reviews have been published in: The Atlantic, The Nation, Harper's, Narrative, Paris Review, Saturday Review, The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post Book World, and some seventy others. He has taught writing at several colleges and universities, including the University of Iowa.