Basic training : a selection of poems /
In the lineage of James Merrill and Philip Larkin, the poems in Basic Training are presented in traditional, accessible forms for a broad audience. Paul Schaefer plays with form, sonnets, villanelles, ballads and blank verse, contrasting everyday experience with formal poetic structure. The final pa...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Rhinebeck, New York :
Epigraph Books,
[2024].
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| Summary: | In the lineage of James Merrill and Philip Larkin, the poems in Basic Training are presented in traditional, accessible forms for a broad audience. Paul Schaefer plays with form, sonnets, villanelles, ballads and blank verse, contrasting everyday experience with formal poetic structure. The final pages of the book contain notes illuminating the references and inspiration for a limited number of the poems. Most of Schaefer's poems are self-explanatory, centered on quotidian life, revealing fundamental truths that come from a life of doing the basics. |
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| Physical Description: | 67 pages ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781960090935 1960090933 |