An edition of Choruses (1999)

Choruses

Poems

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An edition of Choruses (1999)

Choruses

Poems

1st ed.

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  • 1 Have read

Quincy Troupe launches a pyrotechnic display of jazz rhythms, political commentary, sports tributes, travelogues, and architectural abstracts in his latest volume of poetry, withChoruses. Merging traditional poetic form with contemporary content, Troupe fashions "words & sounds that build bridges toward a new tongue" , as he writes in "Song," an ars poetica. Only Troupe could write a sestina chronicling the mass suicide of Heaven's Gate, or a villanelle for Michael Jordan: "rising up in time, michael jordan hangs like an ikon, suspended in space / / his eyes two radar screens screwed like nails into the mask of his face." A masterful technician, Troupe experiments with free verse as well, repeating the same words in three different line-break configurations in "Images: Three Variations of Shape & Form." From haiku to tonka, from Mark McGwire to Sammy Sosa, from bebop to hip hop, these choruses "become sound tracks lifted off a poet's tongue, / / syllables, within moments, are transformed into song..."

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Coffee House Press, Distributor, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
Language
English
Pages
111

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African Americans, Poetry, American poetry, Poetry (poetic works by one author)
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Cover of: Choruses
Choruses: Poems
October 15, 1999, Coffee House Press
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Cover of: Choruses
Choruses: Poems
October 1, 1999, Coffee House Press, Distributor, Consortium Book Sales & Distribution
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Published in
Minneapolis, USA
Genre
Poetry.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
811/.54
Library of Congress
PS3570.R63 C48 1999, PS3570.R63C48 1999, PS 3570 R63 C48 1999

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
111p.
Number of pages
111

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL42497M
Internet Archive
chorusespoems0000trou
ISBN 10
156689090X
ISBN 13
9781566890908
LCCN
99035487
OCLC/WorldCat
41528013
Library Thing
1039413
Goodreads
726472

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15221943W

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