Barely There

by Yahia Lababidi

Book Overview

The flashy poets and the poets with a schtick get the big audience, but it is the quiet poets whose individual poems more often linger with me. I'd trade all of Ginsberg, say, for William Bronk's six-line poem ""After Bach,"" which derives from the cello suites the lesson that sadness ""can be in part /to accept the absence of One to say it to."" And it is Bronk whose work is called to mind for me by Yahia Lababidi's Barely There, in which ""in embracing,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625642792
• ISBN13: 9781625642790
• Release Date: August 2013
• Publisher: Resource Publications (CA)
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"