Someone Will Go on Owing: Selected Poems 1966-1992 [Hardcover]

Andrew Glaze (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1998

Someone Will Go On Owing has been named the SEBA Poetry Book of the Year.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: River City Pub (February 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 188132091X
• ISBN-13: 978-1881320913
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,547,061 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars An Unforgettable Poet, April 30, 1999

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Carroll Dale Short ([e-mail]) (Birmingham, Ala.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Someone Will Go on Owing: Selected Poems 1966-1992 (Hardcover)

"Unforgettable" is a term that becomes more questionable every day as our saturation with information--literature, and otherwise--continues, but there are many of Andrew Glaze's poems that linger indelibly in my mind. The author bemoans the state of contemporary poetry as too often "timid, derivative, academic," and his own work is as opposite from this faint-hearted approach as one can imagine.

This latest compendium contains some 25 years worth of his best work from 6 previous volumes, including his first major book DAMNED UGLY CHILDREN, which was a Pulitzer finalist in 1966.

That book's title poem, as well as "A Letter to David Matzke" are invigorating manifestos of the role ("bard and prophet," as one reviewer has described it) Glaze envisions for writers in our society. And such gems as "The Trash Dragon of Shensi," "I Am the Jefferson County Courthouse," and "Ice Break" are alone with the price of this powerful collection.