Massacre of the Innocents (Iowa Poetry Prize) - Softcover

Ramke, Bin

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9780877454922: Massacre of the Innocents (Iowa Poetry Prize)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877454922 ISBN 13: 9780877454922

Publisher: University Of Iowa Press, 1995

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Massacre of the Innocents is the work of a secular poet who admires the basic texts - the angry qualities of fairytales equally along with the humorous virtues of sacred scriptures. Speaking with the voice of mature accomplishment, Ramke's poems do not struggle for their words but release them from a near-inexhaustible source.
As Ramke has said, "Poems are like children and have minds and manners of their own, luckily beyond the control of parents and poets." These poems talk back and they talk to each other. By stripping away the distractions of received meaning from the words he uses, Ramke makes the necessary connection between reader and poem that can freshen meaning - make it new - as is often claimed for poetry but seldom achieved so well as in his work.

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About the Author:

Bin Ramke teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Denver.

Review:

An Algebra Of Innocence
Art, Love, Geology
As If The Past
The Center For Atmospheric Research
The Consolations Of Grammar
Elegy As Algorithm: Seasonal Lamentation
Further Documentation
The Future As If
Genius Engine
He Dreams Of A Cruise
In Layman's Terms
Like Ulysses
The Little Flowers
The Man Without A Body
Matters Of Time
More's The Pity
Never To Heaven Go
The New Geometry And The Little Blue Heron
Practical Linguistics
Summer As A Verb, Nantucket As An Island
Swellings Of Style, Parts Of Speech
Thin Soup
A Tree Full Of Fish: 1
A Tree Full Of Fish: A Three-quarters Life
A Tree Full Of Fish: Another Dream Was During
A Tree Full Of Fish: Dreams
A Tree Full Of Fish: The Dream Of The Inconsolable Desert
A Tree Full Of Fish: The Fifth Christmas Dream
A Tree Full Of Fish: The Still, Still Life
A Tree Full Of Fish: The Third Dream Recurrent
A Tree Full Of Fish: War Is This Dream To A Child
Tricks
The Uses Of Enchantment
War Crimes
When Culture Was Popular
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder�

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