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Overview"With Anania's familiar, quick movement from perception to the precise but often kinetic image and his extraordinary musicality, Continuous Showings explores a wide range of continuities, from the persistence of tribal culture and language in Mexico to the experience of a fifties movie with Sinatra and Doris Day, from Newton's alchemical encounter with the New World to the coincidence of science and Dadaism in Paris in 1922, from lute music to jazz. The collection's final section, the award-winning ""Omaha Appendices,"" returns to the setting of Anania's early poetry and fiction to examine the tragicomedy of Italian-Ameurican life in the Midwest." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael AnaniaPublisher: Madhat, Inc. Imprint: Madhat, Inc. Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.181kg ISBN: 9781941196441ISBN 10: 1941196446 Pages: 138 Publication Date: 15 March 2017 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsHe makes melody and sentence and sight his three primary colors, and he names them in his poems while simultaneously using them to mark the sharp edge- the precise and delicate edge-of his seeing and sentencing. His evokes the jazz and classical masters (and all else) with the melody of his sentences dropping down the page through the clean-edged lines of the poem. With grace he evokes the everyday lived reality of early and mid-twentieth-century years-his Omaha family, rough times, and gangsters, classic American films. -Reginald Gibbons Devoted and elegant in his attempt to find meaningful richness in life, the poems in Michael Anania's new collection, Continuous Showings, imaginatively unfold as a series of continuously playing movies that someone, sometimes himself, will see. Meditative narrative projects Anania's world-as film, as painting. He seems to rove everywhere, cover everything. The poems leave one having seen, felt, discovered so much. Very beautiful. -Diane Wakoski Anania's precursors include Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams and Charles Olson. Like Robert Creeley, the poet he most resembles, he is interested primarily in the articulation of consciousness.... One admires the mind at work in his poems. -The New York Times Book Review It is hard to think of a contemporary poet who demands more of his own work than Michael Anania. What stands out is the scope and complexity of what is attempted and the grace with which Anania is able to accomplish it. -Booklist Author InformationTab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |