Jeanne E. Clark heeds Dickinson's advice to tell all the truth and tell it slant. Rather than settling for the preening gush or anecdotal flatness of much contemporary poetry, her work travels down roads named Bluelick and Slabtown to retrieve a rich sense of place and a sinewy American language. Like the best blues songs, these poems create an oblique music of leaps and gaps; they let reticence reverberate and sing. The world of Ohio Blue Tips is a place of Marlowe beds and Coniber traps, bluegills and yellow rutabaga, ...
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Jeanne E. Clark heeds Dickinson's advice to tell all the truth and tell it slant. Rather than settling for the preening gush or anecdotal flatness of much contemporary poetry, her work travels down roads named Bluelick and Slabtown to retrieve a rich sense of place and a sinewy American language. Like the best blues songs, these poems create an oblique music of leaps and gaps; they let reticence reverberate and sing. The world of Ohio Blue Tips is a place of Marlowe beds and Coniber traps, bluegills and yellow rutabaga, pronating arches and charcoal briquets. It is an interior furnished with Moo-Cow Creamers, eyelet tableskirts, and Mae West cats. Clark's implied narratives confront class and aspiration in the unfamed lives of Joe Silver, a retarded prisoner "whose eyes are the blue tips of kitchen matches," and Quinn Margaret who is "Backslidden and given over / To a reprobate mind."
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Very Good. Signed and dated by the author on the title page; also signed, dated, and inscribed to a named individual by the author on the half-title page ("To ___-who listens for poems' news"). Clean and bright; no owners' marks; mild shelfwear at the bottom free corners and spine heel, otherwise excellent.; Signed by Author.
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Very Good. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; Signed on title page by author in Chico, CA in blue ink & dated 11 May 2006, inscribed and signed by author on first page also, first edition, very good plus, tight clean unmarked, NO age toning, no creases, no slant.
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Very Good. 8.7 X 6.0 X 0.3 inches VERY GOOD CONDITION, CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT; 3 WOODEN MATCHES ON BLUE PAPER COVERS...1X2" PHOTO AUTHOR & BIOG BACK COVER. SQUARE SPINE PAPER COVERS..; 77 pages; FIRST COLLECTION OF HER POETRY...vulnerability of damaged souls & incandescent reprieve of moment's desire..."
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