Reading the Water

Reading the Water
ISBN-10
1555533256
ISBN-13
9781555533250
Series
Reading the Water
Category
Poetry / American / General
Pages
85
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Northeastern University Press
Author
Charles Harper Webb

Description

"Charles Harper Webb has a wild inventive energy, a quirky at times even manic wit, and a deep sense of wonder at the world. His poems are filled with curiosities, with odd facts and details, with unlikely anecdotes -- all of which he takes personally. As a poet, he's a wise-acre, a troublemaker -- part stand-up comic, part anthropologist, part visionary. He is funny and . . . can be withering about contemporary life; his irony gives him no rest. And yet he is a romantic despite himself: a singer of tales, a poet of praise." -- from the Foreword

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