As Long as it's Big by John Bricuth
"O for a muse of napalm..." Years in the making, "As Long As It's Big" is a stunning and unique poetic achievement. By turns rollicking, funny, and deeply moving, this dramatic poem tells a tragic story - the collapse of a marriage after the suicide of a child - within the topsy-turvy venue of a divorce court ruled by an alternately cynical and sentimental judge. John Bricuth cleanly balances sensitive portrayals of painful lives with hilarity, chaos, and occasionally ribald caricatures. Hugely entertaining and immensely readable, Bricuth's verse narrative will absorb anyone seeking to unravel the truths of modern family life.
"An astonishing work" - Anthony Hecht "Bricuth strikes sparks of poetry as tragico-comical as life itself." - J. M. Coetzee "Readers will delight in its mingled poignancy and slapstick, and will laugh aloud at virtuoso passages of Fieldism diction." - Richard Wilbur "Here, John Bricuth perfects his startling new mode of American poetic tragicomedy." - Harold Bloom "I read it as a novel, almost in one sitting. Its narrative drive is compelling. I am just knocked out by how good it is." - Max Apple "It stings and delights, jolts and pleases." - Guy Davenport "Bricuth stakes out his claim to territory that no other American poet has trod." - X. J. Kennedy"
John Bricuth is the pen name of John T. Irwin, former editor of the Georgia Review and author of numerous works of literary criticism and poetry. He is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and former chair of the Writing Seminars at the Johns Hopkins University. His books include Just Let Me Say This About That, American Hieroglyphics, The Mystery to a Solution, and Doubling and Incest/Repetition and Revenge.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780801882456 |
| ISBN 10 | 0801882451 |
| Title | As Long as it's Big |
| Author | John Bricuth |
| Series | Johns Hopkins Poetry And Fiction |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
| Year published | 2005-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 200 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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