Ramshackle Ode (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780544649675)

A sparkling debut collection from a Pushcart Prize-nominated poet that makes an ecstatic argument for living

Containing joy and suffering side by side, Ramshackle Ode offers elegies and odes as necessary partners to bring out the greatest power in each. By turns celebratory, meditative, tender, and rebellious, these poems reimagine the divisions and intersections of life and death, the human and the natural world, the brutal and the beautiful. Time and again, they choose hope.

From an award-winning young poet in the tradition of Marie Howe, Walt Whitman, Gerald Stern, and contemporary American bard Maurice Manning, Ramshackle Ode presents a new voice singing toward transcendence, offering the sense that, though this world is fragile, human existence is a wonderfully stubborn miracle of chance.

Author: Keith Leonard
ISBN-10: 0544649672
ISBN-13: 9780544649675
Publisher: Ecco Press
Language: English
Published: 04/05/2016
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.20lbs
Size: 7.80h x 5.20w x 0.40d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 03/15/2016 pg. 15
Library Journal 04/01/2016 pg. 98