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This review is from: Wingbeats After Dark (Paperback)
From the Back Cover:Ray Clark Dickson is a genius raconteur of the lyric narrative. His poems live in the improvisational git-go bridge between the elegiac basso and the transcendent alto. This is a poet who knows that when you're down and out, willed happiness is a false god. But he also knows that the blues invert their lyrics, that the sad man who sings well makes us all happy, that the path back is often a lush detour. Like the music of Rilke's Orpheus, Ray Clark Dickson's jazz-inspired verse teaches us how to pull the darkness up from the gut and give it voice so that we can live keenly in this disappearing moment. --Kevin Clark poet and critic, author of Self-Portrait with Expletives Ray Clark Dickson was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1919. He has published hundreds of poems, including twenty-two in the Beloit Poetry Journal, and was chosen as the First Poet Laureate of San Luis Obispo, California, in 1999. |
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Wingbeats After Dark by Ray Clark Dickson (Paperback - November 1, 2009)
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