Path, Crooked Path Contributor(s): Balaban, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556592388 ISBN-13: 9781556592386 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: May 2006 Annotation: "Balaban's emotional range is impressively wide and deeply human-by turns compassionate and angry, somber and humorous, earnest and ironic. His voice is strong; his poems are important."-"Harvard Review" Guided by an acute moral urgency, "Path, Crooked Path" opens on Highway 61 and keeps moving across America and throughout the world. Juxtaposing his experiences in eastern Europe and southeast Asia against contemporary life in the United States, Balaban illuminates the humor and hypocrisy that often percolates when individuals are thrust into the mix of cultures. Whether driving past Bush's Texas ranch, sitting at a caf in Vietnam, or trading swigs of vodka with a Bulgarian exile, his poems look beyond the personal to help make sense of an often chaotic world. From "The Great Fugue" ,.".I am playing" The Grosse Fugue, "hearing John Balaban is the author of a dozen books of poetry, prose, and Vietnamese translations whose accolades include two National Book Award nominations, the Lamont Award, and the William Carlos Williams Award. His translation "Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong" was featured on NPR's "Fresh Air," Balaban teaches at North Carolina State University and lives in Raleigh. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.54 |
LCCN: 2005024579 |
Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6.56" W x 9" (0.30 lbs) 110 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: "Balaban's emotional range is impressively wide and deeply human--by turns compassionate and angry, somber and humorous, earnest and ironic. His voice is strong; his poems are important."--Harvard Review Guided by an acute moral urgency, Path, Crooked Path opens on Highway 61 and keeps moving across America and throughout the world. Juxtaposing his experiences in eastern Europe and southeast Asia against contemporary life in the United States, Balaban illuminates the humor and hypocrisy that often percolates when individuals are thrust into the mix of cultures. Whether driving past Bush's Texas ranch, sitting at a caf in Vietnam, or trading swigs of vodka with a Bulgarian exile, his poems look beyond the personal to help make sense of an often chaotic world. From "The Great Fugue" ...I am playing The Grosse Fugue, hearing John Balaban is the author of a dozen books of poetry, prose, and Vietnamese translations whose accolades include two National Book Award nominations, the Lamont Award, and the William Carlos Williams Award. His translation Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong was featured on NPR's Fresh Air. Balaban teaches at North Carolina State University and lives in Raleigh. |