Another Way to Play by Michael Lally

Another Way to Play by Michael Lally

Another Way to Play collects nearly a half century of engaged, accessible, and deeply felt poetry from a writer both iconoclastic and embedded in the American tradition. In the vein of William Carlos Williams and Frank O'Hara, Lally eschews formality in favour of a colloquial idiom that pops straight from the page into the reader's synapses. This is the definitive collection of verse from a poet who has been around the world and back again: verse from the streets, from the political arena, from Hollywood, from the depths of the underground, and from everywhere in between.

A former jazz musician, Hollywood actor, and radical organizer, the New Jersey-born Michael Lally has worn many hats over the course of his life. But throughout it all, he has written accessible, deeply felt poetry. Themes of identity, love, success, and failure pervade through his body of work, but always with wry humor and the simple grace that is the mark of deep thought. Lally is the author of thirty books of poetry and prose, including Stupid Rabbits (1971), White Life (1980), It's Not Nostalgia (1999) and Swing Theory (2015). Lally is the recipient of the PEN/Oakland Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, among others. He lives in Maplewood, New Jersey.

Eileen Myles is a groundbreaking novelist, poet, and performance artist, whose books include I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems and Chelsea Girls.

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ISBN 13	9781609808303
ISBN 10	1609808304
Title	Another Way to Play
Author	Michael Lally
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Seven Stories Press,U.S.
Year published	2018-04-19
Number of pages	416
Prizes	Short-listed for Paterson Poetry Prize 2019
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