Joshua Beckman
Autor de Shake
Obras de Joshua Beckman
Porch Light (lamp and chair) 2 copias
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Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
Miembros
Debates
Found: "I fell at the party. I'm still at the party." en Name that Book (septiembre 2021)
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Premios
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 13
- También por
- 4
- Miembros
- 228
- Popularidad
- #98,697
- Valoración
- 3.9
- Reseñas
- 1
- ISBNs
- 17
Beckman uses linebreak as punctuation so fluidly that you're unware you're missing out on commas and periods until several poems have passed you by. His repetition draws emphasis to phrase and layers beat, forming the lines into a music, a kick-ass electroacoustic composistion bouncing around the stereoscopic speaker system in your head. This, married to the form changes from section to section, mold wit, beat and image into a wave, a current of peaks and valleys giving the line space to breath one moment, then crushing it into distilled constriction the next.
The book is made of three disinct, powerful movements. Shake draws life from that construction-paper garland of statement and image. "Let The People Die" stalls the form to draw the most from the repetition, meter, and taste of the language. "New Haven" frees the line from constriction, and flips the sentence on it's head. As parts they form a beautiful and exquisite corpse, given a heartbeat of strict meter, and fed the mad lightnings of surrealism, imagism, and cubism, they become an undead poetry monster. This book kinda rocks.… (más)