{"product_id":"songs-for-two-voices","title":"Songs for Two Voices","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eSongs for Two Voices\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eBruce Smith\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780226764559\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eUniversity of Chicago Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2005\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\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\u003e72\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003ePart ancient Greek chorus, part Southern Baptist revival, \u003ci\u003e Songs for Two Voices\u003c\/i\u003e is an explosive showcase for Bruce Smith's jazz-like variations on sonnets and couplets, offering twenty-five duets: poems of call and response, song and countersong. In poems that groove and break, shimmy and dance, Smith filters his Miles Davis-like riffs through a post-World War II American sensibility to deliver verse without platitudes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Smith's speakers wander through the detritus of American materialism-encountering jazz, football, drag, class war, Reaganomics, and Vietnam-the poems dramatize the contradictions and peculiarities of growing up male in Cold War America, both sensing promise and suffering disillusion. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEach poem here speaks in two voices: one that attacks and one that cowers, one voice that leads while the other follows. But Smith's subjects are unencumbered by form, and their voices blossom in duet: the idealized lover is also a betrayer, the man is also a girl. These binaries of statement and contradiction give birth to a third voice in the unrealized possibilities of the two. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA mesmerizing follow-up to 2000's \u003ci\u003eThe Other Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, Smith's\u003ci\u003e Songs for Two Voices\u003c\/i\u003e is carnal yet fiercely intellectual, laid out with the self-confidence of a poet who can invoke Mozart and Coltrane, Anna Akhmatova and John Wayne, Teddy Roosevelt and Augustine in the same incendiary breath.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Songs for Two Voices | Bruce Smith | Hardcover | 9780226764559 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks A 1774643","offer_id":49674963255448,"sku":"1774643","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61RQoEDkqBL.jpg?v=1786562123","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/songs-for-two-voices","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}