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Neighbor Blood: Poems by Richard Frost (English) Hardcover Book Free Shipping!. Condition is "Brand New". Sealed in package. Shipped with USPS Media Mail. Poetry with mature wit and a heavy debt to jazz. From Library Journal: Frost loves language, delighting in every twist it affords. You can see it in these poems, in the music and rhythm of their lines, and even in their subject matter. One poem begins in innocent confusion?a boy thinks "his cereal/ from Battle Creek, Michigan, is somehow the serial/ he likes to be scared by at Saturday matinees"?and ends with words and sounds association that amuse him still as an adult: "He'll have trouble understanding anything seriously./ Serially. See? Certainly. Central. Circle. Creek. Cereal." Not all of Frost's work is so playful. The terrors and realities of his work are haunting. Even an invective against his brother ends, "And yet I love you, and so I must wait/ until you're dead before I publish this." From father and son, from friend and lover, these poems come out of every direction. Frost draws on memory and craft as well; besides the celebrations of works there is sweet jazz. Frost is a working jazz drummer, and he writes about it, and about a few of his friends who served it up, with sharp originality and flair. Intelligent and fun, these poems belong in every collection.?Louis McKee, Painted Bride Arts Ctr., Philadelphia Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. From the Author Brian Brodeur's essay about the book and its author is here: blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_american_poetry/2014/08/champion-of-the-obsolete-event-an-appreciation-of-richard-frosts-neighbor-blood-sarabande-1996-by-br.html From the Back Cover: Neighbor Blood, Richard Frost's newest collection of poems, demonstrates a fluid ease within a range of poetic idioms - ballad meter, free verse, the sonnet, and a "dwindling" sestina. Frost, also a jazz musician, writes poems that seem loose, genuine, off-the-cuff - like jazz riffs that just "happen". But in poetry - as in music - Frost has earned his ease with practice. Frost's free verse includes several poems on jazz, which spotlight - and demonstrate - the deceptively casual attitude of syncopated rhythm. "Jazz for Kirby", a long poem at the book's center, for instance, formally echoes the precision - and the necessity - of the jazz drummer and his distinctive diction: "'I mean. A dup, a-dup-a and a-dup-a zit tah./Like when it's a-poppa poppa pie, baby, you carry everything.'" With a matter-of-fact sincerity and endearing self-deprecating humor, Richard Frost surveys childhood mysteries, adolescent angst, family erosions - the lonely comedies of our survival. Tremendously tender, these poems are parables concerned with the moral challenges of everyday life. About the Author: Richard Frost is Professor of English at the State University College, Oneonta, New York. Thank you for visiting our store and check out our other great listings! Please see all photos for Condition and measurements. Please ask any questions prior to purchasing. We are happy to combine shipping!