Harpo Marx at Prayer [Paperback]

Saul Bennett (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0966229967 | ISBN-13: 978-0966229967 | Publication Date: January 1, 2000 | Edition: 1st

Poetry. With elegiac elan, Saul Bennett grapples with the death of a child. Through a deft use of repetition and a lilt in the language that offsets these often somber meditations, he avoids sentimentality and creates powerfully wrought poems. "Bennett creates a unique idiom...with relentless phrases which pull you through the poems, which refuse to let you go. A Bennett poem is uniquely his. And yet it also shows the fingerprints of a tradition -- the work of e.e. cummings, Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Carlos Williams, even John Donne. Like all great poetry, they connect with something larger" - The Christian Century. The author of NEW FIELDS AND OTHER STONES/ON A CHILD'S DEATH (also available from SPD), Bennett continues his search for redemption in this new volume, ending with a benediction.

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1951, After Smetana's String Quartet No. 1 In E Minor
Admission To The Academy
Alone
Art
At Bottom
Balance
Below
The Child Who Comes To Visit
A Chocolate Lunch
A Citizen Recalls A Country Outing In Wartime
Confectionery
Dating Game, 1998
Deceiving Jesus
Delay
Delicatessen, As Rendered By Brueghel The Younger
The Dismantling Of An American
Drunk Forever
Easter Eve In Washington Square, After The 1926 Aquatint By .....
The End
Even In Warmest Weather The Woman Who Always Wore Long Sleeves
Fearing
Flight Number Whatever
Fourth-and-long
Funeral Destructions
Glass
Guilt Edge
Harpo Marx At Prayer
His, Then The Nun's Tale
Hitler Preaches On Wall Street, Mobbed By Jews; Goebbels Active...
However
The Hungry Aftermath Of Marxist Dogma
I'm Beginning Again
In Transit Lies Life Everlasting
Listen Carefully
Little Guy
Move
My Father Shot In Philadelphia
Nags
Never Mind The Jews
Nineteen Hundred
On The Death Of Hitler's Secretary
On The Menu At The Asia Food Shoppe, Sunnyside, Queens
Ovens
Prosthesis
Quarters
Raising One With Jesus In Chicago
Rocks
Selkirk Safe At Home
Shopping
Shut
Sicilian Indians Attack Homesteaders In West; They Burn, Loot .....
Sinister Submarines Savage 'sitting-duck' Shipping .................
Survivors: 1. Transport To The East, 1942
Survivors: 2. Mush, 1943
Survivors: 3. A Jewish Child Is Poured Cocoa, 1944
Survivors: 4. Let's Pretend, 1945
A Tattooed Man Awaits His Execution
Walking Wall
Washington Armory
With The Atomic Spies At Rockaway Beach, Queens
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 109 pages
• Publisher: Archer Books; 1st edition (January 1, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966229967
• ISBN-13: 978-0966229967
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,159,016 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Not bad, June 17, 2001

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This review is from: Harpo Marx at Prayer (Paperback)

This is a good read for a quiet evening at home. It contains moments of laughter and contemplation. Each page seems to proceed the previous one every time.