Flickering Kingdoms by Grinnell, Jeff

Flickering Kingdoms (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781522826316)

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Flickering Kingdoms by Grinnell, Jeff

Flickering Kingdoms

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Flickering Kingdoms by Grinnell, Jeff

Flickering Kingdoms

$10.00
Format: Paperback
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Flickering Kingdoms evokes the wider social order as an interacting system on the societal, group and individual levels. In closed and open forms, these linguistically playful, condensed, phonetically rich, jazzily rhythmic, and at times hard-hitting poems balance concrete, precise language with controlled ambiguity. Often-in such poems as "The Moonlight Hitchhiker," "Found on a Fallen Conscript," "The Unseasonable," "Somebody Fished from a Swimming Pool," or "The Down-home Harrower"- speakers from various places in society offer their stories, a number of which fail to relate the entire truth but still reveal more about what their tellers think than they realize. In diction ranging from street to manor, employing myth and occasionally dream logic, the poems in this collection explore interrelated psychological, moral, economic, political, social and spiritual stresses inherited from our cultural past which underlie and unsettle the contemporary urban landscape.

Author: Jeff Grinnell
ISBN-10: 1522826319
ISBN-13: 9781522826316
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/09/2017
Pages: 172
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.40d
By Jeff Grinnell
By Jeff Grinnell
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Jeff Grinnell grew up in the small city of Waterloo, Iowa. After earning a BA and an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop in the 1970s, he moved on to Chicago and then the Boston area (where he attended one of Robert Fitzgerald's last classes on prosody). In 1983 he moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and eventually received an MLIS at UC Berkeley. After working in libraries in Cambridge, San Francisco and San Mateo County, CA he retired in 2006. His poems have appeared in The Paris Review, The New York Quarterly, The Literary Review, Colere, The South Carolina Review, Spillway, Wisconsin Review, and The Texas Review, among others. He lives with his wife, Shirley, near Redwood City, CA. He is currently producing videos of some of his poems on YouTube.

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