Playful Song Called Beautiful

Fiction & Literature, Poetry, American
Cover of the book Playful Song Called Beautiful by John Blair, University of Iowa Press
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: John Blair ISBN: 9781609384005
Publisher: University of Iowa Press Publication: April 1, 2016
Imprint: University Of Iowa Press Language: English
Author: John Blair
ISBN: 9781609384005
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Publication: April 1, 2016
Imprint: University Of Iowa Press
Language: English

Playful Song Called Beautiful ranges far into the intersections of faith and scientific thought, places where “there is no stranger who is / stranger than you, no / familiar who’s more / familiar.” In poems that are either formally rhymed and metered or written in syllabically structured three-line stanzas, Blair wanders among universal orders and failures of desire, where the unlikeliness of any of us being who we are, what we are, where we are forces us to consider—and reconsider—the possibilities of belief and meaning. Blair’s poems are elegant and earthy, sometimes profane, and sometimes lovingly playful.

From the invisible landscape of elementary particles to Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s love of the smell of rotten apples, Blair’s poems direct us through a “great wide world that is / ours and never ours” and somewhere among the rolling tercets, the transcendent becomes not only possible, but entirely inevitable. 

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

Playful Song Called Beautiful ranges far into the intersections of faith and scientific thought, places where “there is no stranger who is / stranger than you, no / familiar who’s more / familiar.” In poems that are either formally rhymed and metered or written in syllabically structured three-line stanzas, Blair wanders among universal orders and failures of desire, where the unlikeliness of any of us being who we are, what we are, where we are forces us to consider—and reconsider—the possibilities of belief and meaning. Blair’s poems are elegant and earthy, sometimes profane, and sometimes lovingly playful.

From the invisible landscape of elementary particles to Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe’s love of the smell of rotten apples, Blair’s poems direct us through a “great wide world that is / ours and never ours” and somewhere among the rolling tercets, the transcendent becomes not only possible, but entirely inevitable. 

More books from University of Iowa Press

Cover of the book In Visible Movement by John Blair
Cover of the book An Infuriating American by John Blair
Cover of the book Trespasses by John Blair
Cover of the book In the Memory of the Map by John Blair
Cover of the book Music for the Melodramatic Theatre in Nineteenth-Century London and New York by John Blair
Cover of the book The Portrait and the Book by John Blair
Cover of the book Reading Project by John Blair
Cover of the book Stories We Tell Ourselves by John Blair
Cover of the book Biting through the Skin by John Blair
Cover of the book Hope Isn't Stupid by John Blair
Cover of the book Mary Jane's Ghost by John Blair
Cover of the book The Phantom Unmasked by John Blair
Cover of the book Women in Agriculture by John Blair
Cover of the book Neocolonial Fictions of the Global Cold War by John Blair
Cover of the book In Dylan Town by John Blair
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy