Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue
By: Ed Pavlić.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: American Poetry Review; Distribution by Copper Canyon Press/Consortium
Published: September 1, 2001
Place of publication: Philadelphia, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 75
ISBN-13: 9780966339574
Other titles: Paraph of bone and other kinds of blue
Description: In her introduction Adrienne Rich describes Paraph of Bone & Other Kinds of Blue as "a fully conceived book, speaking as a whole from the first lines to the last. ... Mr. Pavlic has listened closely to our most profound American art, the blues and jazz, and that music has not only helped him achieve poetic form but allowed him to explore a mesh of experience extraneous to literary theories. ... This is intimate and soulful work, breathing, brushing, and tonguing its instrument."

In response to Charlie Parker's theory of art, "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn", Ed Pavlic breathes exuberant life into his poetry through rigorous attention to overlapping facets of language -- visual, tonal, rhythmic.
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