Bullroarer: A Sequence (The Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize) (Paperback)

by Ted Genoways (Author)

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"In a language of visceral accuracy made concise and memorable by metric structure, Ted Genoways tells an American story that is also emblematic of a piece of American history -- a history of expansion cruelly compressed by the Depression, a history of the movement from rural to urban to suburban life." -- From the Foreword

About the Author
Ted Genoways was educated at Nebraska Wesleyan University (B.A.), Texas Tech University (M.A.),and the University of Virginia (M.F.A.). He is the editor of The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez and the author of three chapbooks, most recently, Anna, washing. His poems have appeared in DoubleTake, New England Review, New Republic, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, and the Virginia Quarterly Review, and twice received the Guy Owens Poetry Prize from Southern Poetry Review. Founding editor of the literary journal Meridian, he is an acquisitions editor at the Minnesota Historical Society Press. He lives in Minneapolis. Marilyn Hacker directs the masters' program in creative writing and literature at the City College of New York. She is the author of Presentation Piece, Assumptions, Going Back to the River, Selected Poems: 1965-1990, and Squares and Courtyards. She has received a Lamont Poetry Selection, a Lambda Literary Award, and the National Book Award. She lives in New York City and Paris.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 68 pages
• Publisher: Northeastern; 1st Ed. edition (September 27, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1555535070
• ISBN-13: 978-1555535070
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,968,805 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, September 17, 2004

By	Gleek Noneckman (Eagle, AK) - See all my reviews

This a first book of poems that outshines so many freshman efforts, not only for its precision and technical mastery, but also for its combination of the epic and the intimate, of historic grandeur with the minutely local. What's unusual about this collection is the poet's determination to tell a brutal, epic story--of his ancestors' hard life in the midwest--and to forego the typical young poet's daily emotional weather-report. If fierce yet delicate writers like Whitman, Wright, Levine, and Heaney are in your pantheon, you will love this book.

The real pleasure of Bullroarer is that Genoways can flat out write. He knows how tell a story, and accesses the oft-neglected power of formal effects with the light touch so necessary of formal writing at this point in American poetry. I admired the sweep and expansiveness of Bullroarer, but find myself returning to it for the way that story unfolds in such elegant, utterly American music.