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Neighbor Blood: Poems Hardcover - 1996
by Frost, Richard
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- Title Neighbor Blood: Poems
- Author Frost, Richard
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition 1st
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 88
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Sarabande Books, Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-07
- Bookseller's Inventory # 096411514X.G
- ISBN 9780964115149 / 096411514X
- Weight 0.8 lbs (0.36 kg)
- Dimensions 9.29 x 6.24 x 0.52 in (23.60 x 15.85 x 1.32 cm)
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Themes
- Topical: Death/Dying
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96004300
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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From the rear cover
Neighbor Blood, Richard Frost's newest collection of poems, demonstrates a fluid ease within a range of poetic idioms - ballad meter, free verse, the sonnet, and a "dwindling" sestina. Frost, also a jazz musician, writes poems that seem loose, genuine, off-the-cuff - like jazz riffs that just "happen". But in poetry - as in music - Frost has earned his ease with practice. Frost's free verse includes several poems on jazz, which spotlight - and demonstrate - the deceptively casual attitude of syncopated rhythm. "Jazz for Kirby", a long poem at the book's center, for instance, formally echoes the precision - and the necessity - of the jazz drummer and his distinctive diction: "'I mean. A dup, a-dup-a and a-dup-a zit tah./Like when it's a-poppa poppa pie, baby, you carry everything.'" With a matter-of-fact sincerity and endearing self-deprecating humor, Richard Frost surveys childhood mysteries, adolescent angst, family erosions - the lonely comedies of our survival. Tremendously tender, these poems are parables concerned with the moral challenges of everyday life.
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- Library Journal, 10/01/1996, Page 82
- Publishers Weekly, 08/26/1996, Page 93