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  title info:
    title: How Chet Baker died
    sub title: poems
  name:
    name part: Gifford, Barry
    name part: 1946-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: Poetry
  genre: poetry.
  genre: Poetry.
  genre: PoeÌ?sie.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 101 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "The first words in Barry Gifford's new poetry collection say it all-"Here I am wasting time again / writing poems to keep myself company" - doing what he has ever done, surprising his readers in kaleidoscopic prisms of color, turning every breath into a story, and himself into his most colorful character. The mystery in these poems lives just beyond the province of words. In a strange way, Barry Gifford's poems tell a wordless story, freed of the writer's art. "It's dangerous to remember / so much, especially for a writer / The temptation to make sense / of it is always there / where you and I / are no longer." Daily life, family and friends, are much more important here than books. The beauty and elusiveness of women and music are of utmost importance, far more so than literature. As he attests: "I prefer music to poems, words don't live the same way-so, listen.""--
  note: Barry Gifford.
  note: Includes index.
  subject:
    topic: American poetry
    temporal: 21st century
  classification: PS3557.I283 H683 2022
  classification: 811/.54
  identifier: 9781644211540
  identifier: 1644211548
  identifier: 9781644211557
  identifier: 2021045956
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210922
    record change date: 20220602155259.1
    record identifier: in00004584706
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng