Traveling at High Speeds: Poems

By John Rybicki

Book Overview

The kinetic energy of John Rybicki's poems is his unmistakable signature. His poem "Traveling at High Speeds" opens with the lines, "Some night my body takes the shape of this city." That urban shape... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932826458
• ISBN13: 9780932826459
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: New Issues Press
• Length: 50 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Infectious

These poems will probably change your life. I say probably because poetry is a funny animal that you can declaw just by assuming you won't get much out of it. But let yourself be scratched, even a little. Rybicki has a way of entering the bloodstream and staying there.

Everything you need

Rybicki is a god. There is nothing else to say. His poems are modern, so be prepared - he does things with language that are beautiful and spectacualar and terrifying and enthralling. If you have been taught by this man, they you know that there are no words. Except, perhaps, that the two-headed monster has a lot to teach you. Rybicki is one head. For the other head, go find Pete Markus' books. Buy these together, read, add tears, stir.

A City-Boy Does It Big

There is no real way to review this book without sounding like a fanatic, or to tell you to buy it without making you feel ashamed at not having done so yet. It cuts my breath short to think of ever living without having read this book, so great is the energy I pull from the words. I carry this book with me on long trips, from fear that I might die without having Rybicki's words nearby.