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John T. Irwin is the Decker Professor in the Humanities emeritus at Johns Hopkins University. His books include F Scott Fitzgerald's Fiction: "An Almost Theatrical Innocence"; Hart Crane's Poetry: "Appollinaire lived in Paris, I live in Cleveland, Ohio"; The Mystery to a Solution: Poe, Borges, and mostra altro the Analytic Detective Story; and Unless the Threat of Death Is Behind Them: Hard-Boiled Fiction and Film Noir. mostra meno

Comprende il nome: John Bricuth

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The Best American Poetry 1998 (1998) — Collaboratore — 161 copie

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Altri nomi
Bricuth, John (pseudonym)
Data di nascita
1940-04-24
Data di morte
2019-12-20
Sesso
male
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Houston, Texas, USA
Istruzione
Rice University (PhD)

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The most unusual and incredibly inventive "Poem" of all times, to me, a 7-act scenario of court proceedings of a divorce, alternately speaking re the judge and the two parties, all this after their child committed suicide
 
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betty_s | 1 altra recensione | Sep 13, 2023 |
As Long As It's Big by John Bricuth is a rather strange tale of a divorce court hearing. Framing the poignant and moving testimony of Mrs. and Mr. Fish are rollicking, rather scabrous, episodes of Mrs. Fish's elder sister, an Irish schoolbus of a woman, physically attacking her brother-in-law, his lawyer, policemen, and the judge. Bricuth's blank verse tercets are supple enough to handle both the farce --

She yells, " So they've sent the Black and
Tans." Well, judge, I'm blacker by a lot
Than Dobbs, but ain't no way no one could call him

"Tan," So I thinks, Who! we gots a regular
Looney on our hands. We try arrestin' her
And right away the scufflin' starts.

and the pain of loss --

Maybe he was wrong, but that's the sense
He'd got. Well there it was. I asked him did he
Realize we'd never get trust back like it'd

Been, that life for us would be this
Mended plate that couldn't take extremes
Of heat or cold, take any careless handling--

On the backcover, Harold Bloom praises it as a "new mode of American poetic tragicomedy....an exuberant chant...." I wasn't quite so rhapsodic, but I did find this a moving, if jolting, quick read.
… (altro)
 
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janeajones | 1 altra recensione | May 18, 2009 |

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