Ramshackle Ode by Keith Leonard
Ramshackle Ode is a brilliant, heartbreaking, sometimes funny, always surprising celebration of love and attachment. Alan Shapiro A sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living Embracing joy together with suffering, Ramshackle Odeoffers elegies and odes as necessary partners to bring out the greatest power in each. By turns celebratory, meditative, tender, and rebellious, these poems reimagine the divisions and intersections of life and death, the human and the natural world, the brutal and the beautiful. Time and again, they choose hope. From an award-winning young poet following a great American tradition, Ramshackle Odepresents a new voice singing toward transcendence, offering the sense that, though this world is fragile, human existence is a wonderfully stubborn miracle of chance. These poems have earned their wisdom, and this book is a gift I happily hold in my hands. Maurice Manning It s kind of the hardest work, joy.Which makes Ramshackle Ode one of the hardest-working books I ve read in a long time. Ross Gay Leonard has come right in the nick of time to remind us that inside each our hearts thumps an ecstatic hot night of healing, and raise that tambourine! hallelujah be, there s still a song, goddamnit there s still a chance to sing. Rebecca Gayle Howell KEITH LEONARD s poems have appeared in Best New Poets, Copper Nickel, and Gulf Coast, and have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes. A recipient of the Beacon Street Prize and scholarships from Bread Loaf and the Sewanee Writers Conference, Leonard is currently a visiting lecturer in creative writing at Indiana University.
Leonard, Keith: - Keith Leonard's poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2009, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Journal, Laurel Review, Mid-American Review, the minnesota review, Southern Indiana Review, and Washington Square Review, among other journals. He has held scholarships from the Breadloaf Writers' Conference, the Sewanee Writers' Conference, and Indiana University, where he received his MFA and served as Poetry Editor for Indiana Review. Keith grew up on the island of Martha's Vineyard, and currently lives in Madison, Wisconsin.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780544649675 |
| ISBN 10 | 0544649672 |
| Title | Ramshackle Ode |
| Author | Keith Leonard |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Houghton Mifflin |
| Year published | 2016-04-05 |
| Number of pages | 93 |
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