
Description
Product Details
Publisher | Harper Perennial |
Publish Date | July 03, 2001 |
Pages | 96 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780060935689 |
Dimensions | 8.0 X 5.3 X 0.2 inches | 3.0 pounds |
About the Author
Spencer Short, a graduate of James Madison University, received his M.F.A. at the University of Michigan, where he was awarded both the Hopwood Award and the Cowden Fellowship. A Maytag Fellow and a Teaching-Writing Fellow at the Iowa Writers' Workshop, he has also won an Academy of American Poets Award. Spencer Short has worked as a lecturer, a wine steward, a bouncer, a bartender, a copy editor, on a keg truck, and at London's Globe Theatre project. He lives in Iowa City.
Reviews
“What a treat to listen to this new voice with its nutty intelligence and its strange authority.” — Billy Collins, Poet Laureate of the United States, 2001
“These are buoyant, agile, and often frightened poems -- poems that would like to outsmart themselves but -- poignantly, thankfully -- cannot.” — Mark Levine, author of Enola Gay and Debt
“Flipping through Tremolo, you immediately confront a prickly stir of humor, philosophy and romantic giddiness; reading this book is something like walking into a kitchen at a party and coming upon a wild charmer you’d never met, mid-gesticulation -- a terrific storyteller, but also one eager to switch gears mid-sentence, mid-phrase, mid-thought...the perfect panacea: a source of wisdom disguised as a thrill ride.” — Emily Nussbaum, The New York Times Book Review
“[Tremolo] brings to mind both T.S. Eliot and McSweeney’s....” — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker
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