| A Secret History of the Nighttime World Contributor(s): Ryberg, Jason (Author) |
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ISBN: 1946358045 ISBN-13: 9781946358042 Publisher: 39 West Press OUR PRICE: $14.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General - Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places |
| Physical Information: 0.31" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.39 lbs) 132 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Welcome to the world of Jason Ryberg--a world of true crimes and misdemeanors in the American grain, transformed, through the poet's retelling, into miniature works of art. "Rattlesnake tough but also tender-hearted." -Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas (2017-2019) Reading Ryberg is like driving a pick-up truck across Kansas on shrooms, and his imagery, as fresh as a midnight S curve, takes the reader on a journey from city streets to wheat fields, navigating through a landscape bright with the "five-battery-flashlight of a moon." A Secret History of the Nighttime World, the twelfth book of poetry by Ryberg, delivers one great breath of fire directly from his heart onto the page. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ryberg, Jason: - Jason Ryberg is the author of twelve books of poetry, six screenplays, a few short stories, several angry letters to various magazine and newspaper editors, and a box full of folders, notebooks and scraps of paper that could one day be (loosely) construed as a novel. He is currently an artist-in-residence at both The Prospero Institute of Disquieted P/o/e/t/i/c/s and the Osage Arts Community. He lives part-time in Kansas City, with a rooster named Little Red and a billy goat named Giuseppe, and part-time somewhere in the Ozarks, near the Gasconade River, where there are also many strange and wonderful woodland critters. |