{"product_id":"exceptions-and-melancholies-ralph-angel-9781932511420","title":"Exceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\"He brings something ancient and compelling . . . a kind of rare Sephardic wisdom, a brilliance traveling at the speed of Los Angeles light. He is one of America's very best poets. A true visionary.\"--Tomaz Salamun \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Angel's poems are deceptively quiet, deceptively calm. Beneath their carefully constructed surfaces, they are wild, even intimidating. The power of restraint in poetry cannot be overestimated. . . . These poems burn from within.\"--Carol Muske-Dukes, \u003ci\u003eLA Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the publication of his award-winning volumes, \u003ci\u003eAnxious Latitudes\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNeither World\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eTwice Removed\u003c\/i\u003e, Ralph Angel has won the admiration of readers of contemporary poetry for the extraordinary abstract lyricism of his poems. There is a superb grace, speculative intelligence, and a wry philosophical wisdom to Angel's poetry. There are few poets so accomplished at creating an elegant yet innovative and provocative voice. Now, in Ralph Angel's \u003ci\u003eExceptions and Melancholies: Poems 1986-2006\u003c\/i\u003e, we find ourselves again in the presence of poetry that will move us even closer to a new and renewed promise of the American sublime. As Mark Doty has written, \"These are the poems of a casual, down-to-earth philosopher who's been spun around and turned inside out by loss, by the desolation of life in the late  and early] hours of the century. . . . Angel's poems are stamped indelibly with the mark of a unique, shaping imagination, and they're fresh with news of how it feels to live right now. He creates himself and his poems' characters, strange people in a strangely familiar place. We recognize them, of course, as well we might since they are ourselves and the city where they live is ours. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eRalph Angel\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of three previous collections of poetry: \u003ci\u003eAnxious Latitudes\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Neither World\u003c\/i\u003e, which received the 1995 James Laughlin Award of The Academy of American Poets; and \u003ci\u003eTwice Removed\u003c\/i\u003e; as well as a translation of Federico Garc a Lorca's \u003ci\u003ePoem of the Deep Song\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAngel's poems have appeared in scores of magazines and anthologies, both here and abroad, and recent literary awards include a gift from the Elgin Cox Trust, a Pushcart Prize, the 2003 Willis Barnstone Poetry Translation Prize, a Fulbright Foundation fellowship, and the Bess Hokin Award of the Modern Poetry Association. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMr. Angel is the Edith R. White Distinguished Professor of English and Creative Writing at the University of Redlands, and a member of the MFA Program in Writing faculty at Vermont College. Originally from Seattle, he lives in Los Angeles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ralph Angel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1932511423\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781932511420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.86h x 6.00w x 0.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2006 pg. 63","brand":"Ralph Angel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43983814459647,"sku":"9781932511420","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_14a830d9-dc95-445c-a293-816a33e999cb.jpg?v=1683268879","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/exceptions-and-melancholies-ralph-angel-9781932511420","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}