Small Talk (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781953252050)

Poetry. In SMALL TALK, Stephan Delbos has accomplished, if not the impossible, the unlikely feat of fusing a Rilkean Romanticism with something like Bunting's al dente concision and taut rhythms, a squaring the circle of a 21st century modern lyric that no one could have predicted. I take great pleasure in it, line by line, whether driven by sharp memories of childhood, or the difficulty of facing the world as a new father; a startling elegy for Charles Bronson, or a subversive homage to Bob Dylan; contemplation of a steel urinal in Dublin, or a door handle in Prague; whether in praise of wind or the winding legends of his native Plymouth; Delbos' imagination is populated by the bright objects of the world in an idiom all his own. With a warmth and humor that's not afraid to run disabused and cold, Delbos hits the road as a winning cosmopolitan of the present particular, a surprising troubadour of the now.--Joshua Weiner

Author: Stephan Delbos
ISBN-10: 1953252052
ISBN-13: 9781953252050
Publisher: DOS Madres Press
Language: English
Published: 04/21/2021
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.20d