Pale Ramon [Paperback]

Rane Arroyo (Author)

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Review

After Bleaching My Hair
After The Paintings Of Giotto
Apocryphal Poem
The Arrival; After Dante's Canto Xvii
Attempt At Optimism
The Business Of Words
Caribbean Braille
The Cigar
Concentration
Down Foster Street, Pittsburgh
Drunk Painter And Cartographer
The Exile
For Selena
A Fragment
Hart Crane's Caribbean
Homesick For America
Housewives, Wives Of Houses
In Amherst
The Inlanders
Island To Island
Monsters
Mother Gives Me A History Lesson
New School Year; For Gary Brewer
Nueva York
Old News In The New World
Puerto Rico, 1493
Puertorriquena In Algiers
Silly Dances
That Day
Tia, Heroin, Cemetery
World Citizen
The Youngstown Poems: 1. Among The Abandoned Whites Of The Rust Belt
The Youngstown Poems: 2. On Seamus Heaney Receiving The Nobel Prize
The Youngstown Poems: 3. Betrayals Of The Dead By The Living
The Youngstown Poems: 4. A Personal Apocalypse
The Youngstown Poems: 5. Children Of Steelworkers
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Paperback: 87 pages
• Publisher: Zoland Books; 1st edition (1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0944072941
• ISBN-13: 978-0944072943
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,842,989 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Rane Arroyo (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) began his writing career as a performance artist. He is also a playwright, fiction writer and poet. He teaches creative writing at the University of Toledo and serves on the Board of Directors for the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP). Arroyo's work has earned several awards, including the John Ciardi Poetry Prize, the Carl Sandburg Poetry Prize, an Ohio Arts Council Award for Excellence in Poetry, a Pushcart Prize and the Hart Crane Poetry Prize.

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5.0 out of 5 stars THIS BOOK IS FABULOUS!, June 23, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Pale Ramon (Paperback)

I was truly impressed with the caliber of beauty and language in this collection, and I was not surprised to discover Mr. Arroyo is also a playwright--his work exhudes of the power and energy usually reserved for the voices of the stage. You've got to read this book!!!

2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Sophisticated, witty: a quest into human identity., October 29, 1999

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This review is from: Pale Ramon (Paperback)

Serious, philosophical texts that could give Buddha a run for his karma. Poetic, possible, and piss-elegant at times, Arroyo brings out the cannibal within the spiritualized vegan.