{"product_id":"paraph-of-bone-other-kinds-of-blue-poems","title":"Paraph of Bone \u0026 Other Kinds of Blue: Poems","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eParaph of Bone \u0026amp; Other Kinds of Blue: Poems\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eEd Pavlic\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780966339581\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2001\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e96\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of the APR\/Honickman First Book.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn her introduction Adrienne Rich describes \u003ci\u003eParaph of Bone \u0026amp; Other Kinds of Blue, \u003c\/i\u003eas \"a fully conceived book, speaking as a whole from the first lines to the last... Mr. Pavlic has listened closely to our most profound American art, the blues and jazz, and that music has not only helped him achieve poetic form but allowed him to explore a mesh of experience extraneous to literary theories... This is intimate and soulful work, breathing, brushing, and tonguing its instrument.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn response to Charlie Parker's theory of art, \"If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn,\" Ed Pavlic breathes exuberant life into his poetry through rigorous attention to overlapping facets of language--visual, tonal, rhythmic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003efrom \u003c\/i\u003e\"Confessions of a Piano Roll Lover\" \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026amp; this new player, \u003cbr\u003e he's just a boy. Well\u003cbr\u003e drilled, \u003cbr\u003e won't allow his thumb\u003cbr\u003e to drag behind his\u003cbr\u003e index\u003cbr\u003e finger. Mistakes won't leave\u003cbr\u003e exit wounds, or\u003cbr\u003e bloom\u003cbr\u003e in his lapel until\u003cbr\u003e they're his alone. Grown.\u003cbr\u003e With a pocket\u003cbr\u003e Full of rock salt\u003cbr\u003e in his gait, \u0026amp; jalapeño\u003cbr\u003e beard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEd Pavlic\u003c\/b\u003e received his BA and MA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a PhD from Indiana University. He currently teach in the English Department at Union College in Schenectady, NY. His work has appeared in \u003ci\u003eAfrican American Review, Doubletake, The Black Warrior Review\u003c\/i\u003e and elsewhere. His critical book, \u003ci\u003eCrossroads Modernism: Descent and Emergence in African American Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e is forthcoming in 2002. He lives in Schenectady, NY.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"American Poetry Review","offers":[{"title":"Paraph of Bone \u0026 Other Kinds of Blue: Poems | Ed Pavlic | Paperback | 9780966339581 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks I 1754266","offer_id":49005340164248,"sku":"1754266","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71P83qRgIfL.jpg?v=1778313928","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/paraph-of-bone-other-kinds-of-blue-poems","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}