Ohio Blue Tips (Akron Series in Poetry (Paperback)) - Softcover

Clark, Jeanne E.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1884836445 ISBN 13: 9781884836442

Publisher: University of Akron Press, 1999

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeanne E. Clark was born and raised in Northwest Ohio. She teaches Creative Writing at Arizona State University and for the Arizona Commission on the Arts as an Artist-in-Education. She was the winner of the 1995 Loft Prize in Poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Akron Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1884836445
• ISBN 13: 9781884836442
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 77