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PublisherUniversity of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN-100822959755
ISBN-139780822959755
eBay Product ID (ePID)60674296
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Book TitleNight Clerk at the Hotel of both Worlds
Number of Pages80 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicGeneral, American / General
Publication Year2007
GenrePoetry
AuthorAngela Ball
Book SeriesPitt Poetry Ser.
FormatPerfect
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Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight4.8 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Reviews" At once literary and conversational, enigmatic and lucid, exuberant and wounded, these nimble poems wed the world of imagination to the world of experience. Every jaunty line explodes in at least two directions: devilishly up into the mind; ardently down into the heart." --Terrance Hayes, "Ball gives her reader a world as complex as its characters, as challenging as the dichotomies humans create. Ball brings energy and humor to subject matter that is both complex and trivial, making Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds a book worth sleeping in." --Crab Orchard Review, " 'I want to be you, ' says a poem in "Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds," Achilles, Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Beethoven, Breton, Borges, Byron, Coleridge, Cortez, de Chirico, Freud, Garcia Ma rquez, Guillaume, Kipling, Magellan, Marilyn Monroe, Menelaus, John Stuart Mill, Rimbaud, Larry Rivers, Sartre, Tolstoy, Pancho Villa, Wordsworth, and a few stellar others meet in the surprising pages of this desperately beautiful book. Thereafter they're free to mingle ever more strangely in one's newly ignited imagination." --Dara Wier, In these new poems, Angela Ball conducts a tender, eerie traffic in dreams of conversation. In this hotel, as in the splendid, ghostly hotel assemblages of Joseph Cornell, boundaries between image and viewer, poem and reader, life and afterlife, quietly disappear. In the eyes of the night clerk, all worlds become one. The vision is thrilling." --Donald Revell, "Navigates nimbly between narrative and language and mapping the bright territory in which imagination suffuses the mundane. Droll, allusive, plaintive in an ironic pitch, Ball's lyrics defy reader expectations as they develop, dodging and burning to create vibrant sound patches and images." --The Hollins Critic, "'I want to be you,' says a poem inNight Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds. Achilles, Apollinaire, Baudelaire, Beethoven, Breton, Borges, Byron, Coleridge, Cortez, de Chirico, Freud, Garcia MÁrquez, Guillaume, Kipling, Magellan, Marilyn Monroe, Menelaus, John Stuart Mill, Rimbaud, Larry Rivers, Sartre, Tolstoy, Pancho Villa, Wordsworth, and a few stellar others meet in the surprising pages of this desperately beautiful book. Thereafter they're free to mingle ever more strangely in one's newly ignited imagination." --Dara Wier, "At once literary and conversational, enigmatic and lucid, exuberant and wounded, these nimble poems wed the world of imagination to the world of experience. Every jaunty line explodes in at least two directions: devilishly up into the mind; ardently down into the heart." --Terrance Hayes, "Navigates nimbly between narrative and language and mapping the bright territory in which imagination suffuses the mundane. Droll, allusive, plaintive in an ironic pitch, Ball's lyrics defy reader expectations as they develop, dodging and burning to create vibrant sound patches and images." -The Hollins Critic
Dewey Decimal811.54
SynopsisWinner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry.Angela Ball's lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous., Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Terrance Hayes Winner of the 2008 Poetry Award from Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Angela Ball's lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous., Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry Selected by Terrance HayesWinner of the 2008 Poetry Award from Mississippi Institute of Arts and LettersAngela Ball's lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous., Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Angela Ball s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous., Winner of the 2006 Donald Hall Prize in Poetry. Angela Ballrs" s lyrical, wry, and rueful poems float on a river of incongruities on which we may find Ron Popeil, Lord Byron, and Rudyard Kipling sharing the same raft; they create a fascinating commerce between the sublime and the ridiculous.
