Someone Will Go on Owing: Selected Poems, 1962-1992

by Andrew Glaze

Someone Will Go On Owing has been named the SEBA Poetry Book of the Year. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881320936
• ISBN13: 9781881320937
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Black Belt Press
• Length: 189 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

An Unforgettable Poet

"Unforgettable" is a term that becomes more questionable every day as our saturation with information--literature, and otherwise--continues, but there are many of Andrew Glaze's poems that linger indelibly in my mind. The author bemoans the state of contemporary poetry as too often "timid, derivative, academic," and his own work is as opposite from this faint-hearted approach as one can imagine.This latest compendium contains some 25 years worth of his best work from 6 previous volumes, including his first major book DAMNED UGLY CHILDREN, which was a Pulitzer finalist in 1966.That book's title poem, as well as "A Letter to David Matzke" are invigorating manifestos of the role ("bard and prophet," as one reviewer has described it) Glaze envisions for writers in our society. And such gems as "The Trash Dragon of Shensi," "I Am the Jefferson County Courthouse," and "Ice Break" are alone with the price of this powerful collection.