{"product_id":"neighbor-blood-richard-frost-9780964115156","title":"Neighbor Blood: Poems","description":"Richard Frost has published two books of poems (\u003ci\u003eThe Circus Villains\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGetting Drunk with the Birds\u003c\/i\u003e) with Ohio University Press. During the last forty years his poems have appeared in \u003ci\u003eTriQuarterly, Paris Review, Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, and many other journals. He has won the Poetry Society of America's Gustav Davidson Memorial Award and has held a CAPS fellowship and an NEA creative writing fellowship. Frost is a working jazz drummer and Professor of English at the State University College, Oneonta, New York.\u003cp\u003e\"Frost, a jazz drummer and English professor, sets his first collection in 20 years in the world of visceral experience rather than abstract matter. . . . Frost's strengths lie in the hinges of his poems where the reader can feel the deep connections that motivate his work. . . . Frost's pithy, epigrammatic style finds strength in silences as well as words.\"-\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In Richard Frost's long awaited third book, he recreates a world as if revived from memory . . . where humor and violence intersect in the daily intimacies of living, sometimes leading to the horrific, often leading to the miraculous.\"-\u003ci\u003eSalt Hill Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I am very fond of Mr. Frost's poems,\" writes Donald Justice of [Frost's] latest collection, \"and especially of those that have a story to tell, which they manage to do with enviable clarity and a total lack of pretension. They can be poignant and scary; also funny. They are certainly very human. Nor should it be held against them-unusual though the case may be-that these are poems one can actually enjoy.'\"-\u003ci\u003eAmerican Poet\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For those who still believe that poetry can discover truth and illuminate experience, \u003ci\u003eNeighbor Blood\u003c\/i\u003e will come as a rare comfort and pleasure.\"-\u003ci\u003eThe Marlboro Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"These are poems that can help us to understand our human lives. . . . Frost is a remarkable poet, a storyteller of colloquial surety who greets the reader with respect and intimacy. . . .\"-\u003ci\u003eControlled Burn\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Frost loves language, delighting in every twist it affords. You can see it in these poems, in the music and rhythm of their lines, and even in their subject matter. . . . Frost is a working jazz drummer, and he writes about it, and about a few\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Frost\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0964115158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780964115156\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sarabande Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.47lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.94h x 5.97w x 0.27d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/26\/1996 pg. 93\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/01\/1996 pg. 82\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Richard Frost","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47965743939839,"sku":"9780964115156","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1c1b9073-e193-434c-adcb-6e24e3ea8853.jpg?v=1767284510","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/neighbor-blood-richard-frost-9780964115156","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}