The Shine Poems epub
The Shine Poems epub
The Shine Poems.cCalvin Forbes
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Author: Calvin Forbes
Number of Pages: 72 pages
Published Date: 01 Apr 2001
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Publication Country: Baton Rouge, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9780807126660
File Name: The.Shine.Poems.pdf
Download Link: The Shine Poems
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Shine is an African American folk character who emerged after World War I in toasts, blues, folk poetry, and children's rhymes. In his new book of poems, Calvin Forbes reinvents Shine, giving him a girlfriend, Glow, and a child, Shade. He renders the figure more melancholy and adds traces of the surreal and slapstick -- accessories "typical of the folk dibbling and dabbling as the tradition is passed along".While only the last quarter of The Shine Poems concern Shine, all of the poems reflect a similar sensibility. They share the narrative threads of family relationships and personal and social history while they test the full possibilities of colloquial language and speech rhythms in verse. With its songs, blues, and quick, witty epigrams, The Shine Poems is a collection clear, firm, funny, and playful even as it takes that inevitable turn in the road to-ward the somber. Lyrical yet highly formalized -- "simplicity shacked up with complexity", as Forbes puts it -- these poems resemble the Jess B. Simple short stories of Langston Hughes and take inspiration from the Henry poems of John Berryman, the Jane poems of W. B. Yeats, and the poetry of Sterling Brown.
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The Shine Poems.cCalvin Forbes
Author: Calvin Forbes
Number of Pages: 72 pages
Published Date: 01 Apr 2001
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
Publication Country: Baton Rouge, United States
Language: English
Format: PDF
ISBN: 9780807126660
File Name: The.Shine.Poems.pdf
Download Link: The Shine Poems
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Shine is an African American folk character who emerged after World War I in toasts, blues, folk poetry, and children's rhymes. In his new book of poems, Calvin Forbes reinvents Shine, giving him a girlfriend, Glow, and a child, Shade. He renders the figure more melancholy and adds traces of the surreal and slapstick -- accessories "typical of the folk dibbling and dabbling as the tradition is passed along".While only the last quarter of The Shine Poems concern Shine, all of the poems reflect a similar sensibility. They share the narrative threads of family relationships and personal and social history while they test the full possibilities of colloquial language and speech rhythms in verse. With its songs, blues, and quick, witty epigrams, The Shine Poems is a collection clear, firm, funny, and playful even as it takes that inevitable turn in the road to-ward the somber. Lyrical yet highly formalized -- "simplicity shacked up with complexity", as Forbes puts it -- these poems resemble the Jess B. Simple short stories of Langston Hughes and take inspiration from the Henry poems of John Berryman, the Jane poems of W. B. Yeats, and the poetry of Sterling Brown.
Read online The Shine Poems Buy The Shine Poems Download The Shine Poems ebook, pdf, djvu, epub, mobi, fb2, zip, rar, torrent Download to iPad/iPhone/iOS, B&N nook The Shine Poems