Common Sense
Published on 5. April 2016
202 pages
978-0-8195-7643-9 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1979, Common Sense evinces a spare street-wise style rooted in the vernacular of the city. Now something of a cult classic, the book is recognized as an understated masterpiece, pushing at the edges of spoken word. This is the language of everyday, brought onto the page in such a way that we never lose the flow of speech and at the same time we become attuned to its many registers--musical, emotional, ironic. Ted Greenwald's work has been associated with several major veins of American poetry, including the Language movement and the New York School, but it remains unclassifiable. An online reader's companion will be available at tedgreenwald.site.wesleyan.edu.
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TED GREENWALD has published extensively for over fifty years. He is the author of over thirty books, including Licorice Chronicles, Word of Mouth, Jumping the Line, In Your Dreams, 3, and Clearview/LIE. He lives in New York City.
Content
- Cover
- Common Sense
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- Whiff
- Fog Rolled In
- P.S.
- Airy Rushes Punch
- Bleep
- For Ted, On Election Day
- And, Hinges
- Stop For
- Note To A Dumb Friend
- The/Skeleton
- Pore Suspension
- Privets Come Into Season At High Tide
- The/Form
- Miami
- Quick
- His/(The
- Detonator
- Radio Crop
- Dew, Discrepancy
- A Thought
- I Hear A Step
- Fat Lines, Turn
- Tracer
- Four Days of Books And High Fever
- I Forgot To Remember
- Transformational Grammar
- Lapstrake
- Commonsense
- Something Nice Happened
- One/Thing
- We Pass Slowly
- Jiggles
- Elegance And Umbrellas
- Comb
- Fatty
- Making A Living
- Zero Hour
- A Man Was On A Hill
- Mister Tree's Manual
- For Laffs
- Straight On Bearing Left
- Standard Air
- Prime Meat Clouds
- Looks Like A Busy Week
- To Use
- Happy/Dolphin
- Come In And Look Thinking
- Snatches Of Music
- This Is The Right
- The Pears Are The Pears
- Swan Leg
- The Words To The Song
- Ah!
- Other Vase
- Restless
- Human Events
- Always/Surprised
- Poem
- She Looked
- Saturday Night
- Goes On
- For Joan
- Body
- One Foot
- The Piano Shivers
- Getting Through
- Germ Warfare
- Strange/Dreams
- Blazing Down Sun
- Blink
- Superfluity
- Wash
- Backscratch
- Cool/Cool
- Candling
- Food Cycle
- Such A Long Time
- Hand Over
- Ghost
- Next Week
- Clean Glass Poems
- Howdah
- The Mutt's Laser
- The Life
- Modern Times
- Ninthstreet
- The Words Drone On
- Quiet Dampness
- Complete Balancing Weather Meets
- What Were His Last Words
- You're Welcome
- Sitting Around
- Off The Hook
- Gray Out
- The Book I Toss
- Seated On The Back
- Poems/Pile Up
- Last Five Minutes
- Acknowledgments
