The Hartford Book by Samuel Amadon
Poetry. In Samuel Amadon's intense, second collection, a sequence of meditative and darkly comic postmodern narratives about what it is like to be from Hartford, Connecticut, we stagger with the speaker down the streets of his still-present past, together with a motley cast of crackheads, liars, scoundrels, and unlikely heroes.The speaker is on the rack and only timidly aware of the torture he cannot help wreaking. Our poetry will never be the same now Amadon has spoken, our language can be entirely different. Happily for us.--Richard Howard
These poems are street-smart, buoyantly lyrical, and they possess something beautiful and permanent at their core. Samuel Amadon does for Hartford what Koch, Schuyler, and O'Hara have done for New York City.--Tracy K. Smith
Amadon, Samuel: - Samuel Amadon is the author of Like a Sea, THE HARTFORD BOOK (Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 2012), and LISTENER (Solid Objects, 2020). His poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, APR, Poetry, and Lana Turner. He is the director of the MFA Program in Creative Writing at the University of South Carolina, where he edits the journal Oversound with Liz Countryman.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781880834978 |
| ISBN 10 | 1880834979 |
| Title | The Hartford Book |
| Author | Samuel Amadon |
| Series | New Poetry |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cleveland State University Poetry Center |
| Year published | 2012-04-03 |
| Number of pages | 74 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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