Playful song called beautiful
By: John Blair
Series: Iowa Poetry Prize
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9781609383992; 9781609384005
Work titles: Poems
Description: Playful Song Called Beautiful ranges far into the intersections of faith and scientific thought, places where “there is no stranger who is / stranger than you, no / familiar who’s more / familiar.” In poems that are either formally rhymed and metered or written in syllabically structured three-line stanzas, Blair wanders among universal orders and failures of desire, where the unlikeliness of any of us being who we are, what we are, where we are forces us to consider—and reconsider—the possibilities of belief and meaning.