Voices Writ in Sand, Dramatic Monologues and Other Poerm
Jeffrey Delotto
(Author)
Description
Jeffrey DeLotto's impressive new collection is aptly named as the poet gives voice to characters both historical and personal. From Geronimo-who curses his captors and his captivity-to the hapless sailor in "The Whistle Buoy"-who cannot make it to shore before sunset-DeLotto's narrators, like all of us, contemplate their mortality, "the deep mystery of the dark" to which they return again and again. And there is something timeless in the way the poet captures experiences of ephemeral simplicity-rounding up crabs boiled out of a stock pot, studying spiders inhabiting a sailboat, watching rain turn to snow. These poems haunt us with their challenging familiarity.Product Details
Price
$15.95
$14.83
Publisher
Lamar University Press
Publish Date
August 31, 2012
Pages
146
Dimensions
5.51 X 8.5 X 0.34 inches | 0.43 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780985255237
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About the Author
Jeffrey DeLotto, Professor of English in the School of Arts and Sciences at Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, teaches writing, Shakespeare, and Modern British literature. A native of Florida, he has also taught at Yarmouk University (in Jordan), Texas Tech University, and as a Fulbright Lecturer in American Literature at the University of Plovdiv in Bulgaria. His poems, essays, and stories have appeared in numerous magazines, journals, and anthologies, and he has published a chapbook entitled 'Voices at the Door, ' the Southwest Poets Series winner from the Maverick Press. His previous book is 'Voices Writ in Sand: Dramatic Monologues and Other Poems' from Lamar University Literary Press. He is a grower of vegetables and the skipper on the mutinous family sailboat.
