The Search for the Reason Why
Subtitle: New and Selected Poems (Harmony Series)
Publisher: Bottom Dog Press
Published: February 8, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780933087965
Subjects: American Poetry; Poetry; American - General; Techniques - Printmaking; Cleveland, Ohio, Midwest; Poetry / Single Author / American
First sentence: Very forgiving, as instruments go.
Description: "Tom (T.L.) Kryss is an outsider's outsider and as sweet a poet as I've ever encountered. He was part of the Cleveland poetry scene in the Sixties that had d.a. levy as its catalyst and got hammered hard by the police...What Tom Kryss does, more than any poet I know, is strip away excess and cut to the bone. He staked out a modest turf and then hunkered down and stayed there. He has not squandered time and blurred his focus chasing down publishers and polishing his image. So that what he writes is unencumbered and fraught with the particular, which is the unique, which is the only way to get a handle on the universal. What he writes always gives you something and never takes anything away."--Publisher's website.