Call and response
Subtitle: conversations in verse
By: Jack B. Bedell and Darrell Bourque.
Contributors: Bourque, Darrell.
Publisher: Texas Review Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Huntsville, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9781933896403
Description: The poems in Call and Response are the record of a friendship, conversations in verse with topics as varied and diverse as fine art and the traditions of southern Louisiana. The poems created here are a drawing out of the love and respect they have for each other and for the things they share with the world. It is an exchange in the tradition of artists like Homer and Lady Murasaki, as well as in the common traditions of work songs sung by field workers throughout "This exquisite collaboration by two of our states finest poets is a gift of extraordinary spiritual dimension."--The Times-Picayune "Few collaborative books work as well as this one. Call and Response represents two poets at the height of their abilities. It also captures the contrast, harmony, and ultimate synthesis between two poetic voices, resulting in a book that succeeds as a strong collection of individual poems but also as a conversation in verse. The two poets, with their divergent sensibilities, have created a book in which the poems subtly and beautifully communicate with one another."--Kevin Meaux, author ofMyths of Electricity.
Table of contents: title: Authors' preface; title: Dürer's meditation on small things; title: The artist and his model; title: Letter from Lebanon; title: George Foreman in Zaire; title: Scratch; title: The injury wall; title: Quietism; title: Waitfulness; title: Lovesick: from Lesbos to Nashville; title: Elvin Jones at midnight; title: The arum lilies in my mother's dream; title: Bougalie; title: Egret haiku; title: Cane field haiku; title: On an overgrown path; title: Day, working; title: Hollybeach, 1952; title: My son discovers the draw of water; title: Einstein's violin; title: Proof: that space and time do intersect; title: Dürer's pond in the woods; title: Monet's La Pie; title: The hand of thought; title: The geese on Highway 16; title: On listening to Schubert; title: Django Reinhardt at La Cigale; title: A photograph for my father; title: Family album; title: Friday night fish fry; title: Saturday night crab boils; title: The black door in Arnaudville; title: A barn in Arnaudville.