Narratives from America

By Richard Ronan

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0937872059
• ISBN13: 9780937872055
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Dragon Gate, Incorporated
• Length: 139 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

One of the best narrative poetry books this century.

In the tradition of his favorite influences, Basho, Whitman, Frost, and Stevens, Richard Ronan writes these important long poems to sculpt the voices of unusual, potent characters. A woman hikes Ireland to get past her grief that her husband is paralzyed, mentally disabled children have sudden clarity and know the deepest truths about their loved ones, a man ruins his Southern family--and saves them--by eating only (rarer and rarer) flowers: all weird, all great voice work. Ronan is a remarkable and essential poet; he's been called one of the ten most important post Stonewall Revolution (gay) poets, and is that and lots more too. Check it out (also Radiance Like Wind and Water--lyric poetry with as much range and more music).