Overview
The Rumpus, in a review of his work, labeled poet Ryan Vine "a raconteur," and his superior story-telling skills are on full display in WARD. The poems are witty, teeming with dark humor, political, playful, and the sardonic tone is pitch-perfect for our times, when we seem to have forgotten that an important survival strategy is the ability to laugh at ourselves.
In its heart of hearts, WARD is a book about ethos and mythos, about the creation of a character and the investigation of voice. As one critic, Taylor Collier, wrote: "In the tradition of Kees's Crusoe poems, Berryman's Henry poems, and to some degree Yeats's Crazy Jane poems, Vine] builds a series of poems around a central character as a means of investigating both interior and exterior contemporary realities."
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781680032598
- ISBN-10: 1680032593
- Publisher: Trp: The University Press of Shsu
- Publish Date: November 2021
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.1 x 0.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.13 pounds
- Page Count: 52
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