{"product_id":"misterioso-sascha-feinstein-9781556591365","title":"Misterioso: Poems","description":"One of Copper Canyon Press's missions is to introduce the work of new poets. With the launching of the annual Hayden Carruth Award, the Press is excited to introduce the work of Sascha Feinstein.\u003cp\u003eChosen from over a thousand manuscript submissions, \u003ci\u003eMisterioso\u003c\/i\u003e is steeped in the biographies, history, and sounds of jazz music, using a distinctly American idiom to explore personal relationships. Whether writing about John Coltrane or Thelonious Monk (the inspiration for the book's title), Feinstein transcends mere portraiture by emphasizing the meditative and sonorous qualities of jazz music. Feinstein's insistent voice and music are a welcome addition to contemporary American poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Feinstein links memory, feeling, autobiography, official history with imagination the same way recording engineers ingeniously mix, shape, and color sound....It is bloood and kin, eruptions and rushes of love, scratches of silence--sometimes barely audible between beats--that make these walking, talking poems leap to life and burst into flame.\"-Al Young\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Feinstein's debut merits the first Hayden Carruth Emerging Poets Award because the poems in it are good, sturdy work and because so many of them touch on one of Carruth's passions, jazz....Feinstein writes excellently about other things--his mother's death, cremations he has witnessed, his love for his Asian wife and their children--but the jazz poems uniquely communicate what it is like to live with music one adores.\"-Ray Olson, \u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSascha Feinstein\u003c\/b\u003e, winner of the first annual Hayden Carruth Award, has published poems in numerous magazines and journals, such as \u003ci\u003eAmerican Poetry Review, North American Review, Ploughshares, New England Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eCrazyhorse\u003c\/i\u003e. He is the co-editor (with Yusef Komunyakaa) of \u003ci\u003eThe Jazz Poetry Anthology\u003c\/i\u003e and its companion volume \u003ci\u003eThe Second Set\u003c\/i\u003e, and the author of two critical books, including \u003ci\u003eJazz Poetry: From the 1920s to the Present.\u003c\/i\u003e He is an Associate Professor of English at Lycoming College in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, where he co-directs the Creative Writing Program and edits \u003ci\u003eBrilliant Corners: A Journal of Jazz \u0026amp; Literature.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sascha Feinstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1556591365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781556591365\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Copper Canyon Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 71\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.22lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.92w x 0.27d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2000 pg. 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2000 pg. 1002\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/07\/2000 pg. 72\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/15\/2000 pg. 98\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sascha Feinstein","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50779004535039,"sku":"9781556591365","price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/misterioso-sascha-feinstein-9781556591365","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}