With Mouths Open Wide
New and Selected Poems
Will be published approx. on 10. April 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-57131-427-7 (ISBN)
Description
"Full of spondaic gravity and grit." -BRUCE BOND
Showcasing the fortitude and wisdom, the honey and fire, the jab and embrace of a master poet, With Mouths Open Wide is a landmark collection of more than three decades of writing.
Including work from John Caddy's previous five books as well as new poems drawn from his experiences recovering from a stroke, the sum total of this expansive career carefully mediates the balance of outside and inside, sequentially rebuilding a delicate web of cognition, identity, and perception. From the revulsion on a child's face as Caddy's recovering body struggles to walk, to the gift of a night nurse revealing her tattoo, these poems defy consolation in their consideration of mortality. Caddy engages readers with his acerbic wit, his base profundity, his downright honesty, and a no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners attitude.
With the blinkers off, this poetic vision comprehends a fulsome picture of human, and animal, experience-a flawed and loved slideshow of the world.
Showcasing the fortitude and wisdom, the honey and fire, the jab and embrace of a master poet, With Mouths Open Wide is a landmark collection of more than three decades of writing.
Including work from John Caddy's previous five books as well as new poems drawn from his experiences recovering from a stroke, the sum total of this expansive career carefully mediates the balance of outside and inside, sequentially rebuilding a delicate web of cognition, identity, and perception. From the revulsion on a child's face as Caddy's recovering body struggles to walk, to the gift of a night nurse revealing her tattoo, these poems defy consolation in their consideration of mortality. Caddy engages readers with his acerbic wit, his base profundity, his downright honesty, and a no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners attitude.
With the blinkers off, this poetic vision comprehends a fulsome picture of human, and animal, experience-a flawed and loved slideshow of the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Minneapolis
United States
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Paperback (trade)
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Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57131-427-7 (9781571314277)
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Winner of the 2012 McKnight Distinguished Artist Award, poet and educator John Caddy is the author of The Color of Mesabi Bones(Milkweed Editions, 1989), a Los Angeles Times Book Prize winner for poetry, Eating the Sting (Milkweed Editions, 1986), and Morning Earth (Milkweed Editions 2003). His "Earth Journal" poems circulate daily to teachers, naturalists, artists, and students around the world. A founder of Minnesota's Poets in the Schools program, Caddy has taught poetry to adults and children in over eight hundred settings over the course of forty years.