Sporadic Troubleshooting: Poems
by Clarence Major
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"Deeply felt and carefully constructed, the poems in this new collection by Clarence Major both acknowledge poetic literary tradition and explore exciting new narrative and lyrical territories. Throughout Sporadic Troubleshooting, Major uses jazz-like improvisation, applying it to well-known mythological stories to enhance narrative intensity the way Miles Davis applies innovative techniques to a standard Cole Porter number. Breathtakingly vivid, these poems are testaments to such universal show more subjects as love, charity, nature, fear, survival, loyalty, justice, and beauty. Major's poems offer hopeful glimpses of life with a view toward renewal and transformation"-- show lessTags
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Worth the volume to find 'Longevity'. Some good minor pieces.
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Artist and writer Clarence Major grew up in Chicago and later received his Ph.D. from the Union Institute in Ohio. He has been a judge for the National Book Awards and was twice named to the panel of the National Endowment of the Arts. Major has written eight novels including "Such Was The Season" and "Painted Turtle," which received citations show more from the New York Times Book Review as Summer Reading and Notable Book of the Year, and "My Amputations," which received the Western States Book Award. Major published "Juba Jive: A Dictionary of African American Slang," as well as nine other books of poetry that won a National Council of the Arts Award and two Pushcart Prizes. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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