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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. While going through my shelves, I came across this slim volume of James Rod Burns' tanka - I made the mistake of opening it randomly and just like that, my tidying mission was abandoned. I settled down for a quiet reread of this vignettes of cityscapes, loss, minutiae, tedium, emptyiness and I remembered why I loved it the first time. It's quite a painful read - there's a lot of sadness in these pages - but expressed in unexpected language and images. Deserves a wider audience. ( ) no reviews | add a review
Working within the discipline of tanka, one of the worldâ¿¿s oldest continuously-written forms, this striking debut collection by James Roderick Burns identifies the absurdities and deflations of the human condition, from farm boys thinking of flying saucers to a workaday vision of the end of the world. Intelligent, witty, sometimes melancholic in their beauty, the poems constitute a collection to be relished. No library descriptions found. |
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Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)821.92Literature English & Old English literatures English poetry 1900- 2000-RatingAverage:
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