MARC Record from Library of Congress

LEADER: 01634cam a2200277 i 4500
001 2013026239
003 DLC
005 20150123082625.0
008 130719s2013 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2013026239
020 $a9781937027001 (pbk.)
040 $aDLC$beng$cDLC$erda$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPS3618.U325$bA83 2013
082 00 $a811/.6$223
084 $aPOE000000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aRuby, Michael$q(Michael Handler)
240 10 $aPoems.$kSelections
245 10 $aAmerican songbook /$cMichael Ruby.
264 1 $aBrooklyn :$bUgly Duckling Presse,$c[2013]
300 $a139 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"Poetry. The poems in AMERICAN SONGBOOK are based on phrases from more than fifty 20th century songs. The singers range from Memphis Minnie to Tupac Shakur, and songs from Louis Armstrong's hit "What a Wonderful World" to Hattie Ellis's "Desert Blues," a little-known Lomax prison recording. Many musical traditions inform the poems, including blues, jazz, gospel, country, folk, bluegrass, electric blues, R&B, rock, disco and hip hop."In their careful reading of real and imaginary signs these poems bring peripheral and liminal perception into focus. At the intersection of form and voice--of how something can be said and what meaning might intend--Michael Ruby folds everyday utterance into astonishing fact. These plaintive and destabilized voicings offer the necessary means to discover what is immediately before us."--Peter Gizzi"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 7 $aPOETRY / General.$2bisacsh