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A Better Way to Fall
This chapbook is the winner of the 15th annual Philbrick Poetry Project, sponsored by The Providence Athenaeum. Dennis Barone selected this manuscript as the 2013 Philbrick Chapbook finalist.
40 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2013
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February 8, 2020
I very much enjoyed this collection. Especially, the ones that provided glimpses into HS English classes.
From the non-identified as such, but what I consider to be, the Introduction:
"A Better Way to Fall offers the reader fifteen poems full of cruel irony and beautiful precision, Greek mythology mixed with contemporary mass media, global vision and neighborhood close-up. These poems of our moment presented in an all-of-a piece orchestration are readily understandable and profoundly meaningful. They tell a reader that an instant in the sun might be worth the fall. They warn a reader that too often innocence does not lead to experience but instead self-induced ignorance ends in cliche: events, as well as sounds repeat. Falling may be necessary, these poems say, if we plan - someday - to rise or, at least, 'navigate escape'." -Dennis Barone
From the non-identified as such, but what I consider to be, the Introduction:
"A Better Way to Fall offers the reader fifteen poems full of cruel irony and beautiful precision, Greek mythology mixed with contemporary mass media, global vision and neighborhood close-up. These poems of our moment presented in an all-of-a piece orchestration are readily understandable and profoundly meaningful. They tell a reader that an instant in the sun might be worth the fall. They warn a reader that too often innocence does not lead to experience but instead self-induced ignorance ends in cliche: events, as well as sounds repeat. Falling may be necessary, these poems say, if we plan - someday - to rise or, at least, 'navigate escape'." -Dennis Barone
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