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2008
by Pavement Saw Press
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Paperback, 72 pages
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Dunkirk, NY
literary awards
Transcontinental Award
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9781886350427
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This award winning authors first full length collection includes narrative and often working class poems. Some of these first appeared in Blue Collar ...more
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A narrative collection of poems, one of the few books that have been published recently without all of the images stripped out by vagueness.
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Read in August, 2008
Holy Habitation
I read some of these poems in Jason's chapbook Some Days It's a Love Story; in this full-length collection, which won Pavement Saw's Transcontinental Poetry Award, the poems reappear with even greater force, partly due to the larger narrative of which they now form a part. Watering the Dead accumulates power in its depiction of the stunted lives and thwarted dreams of small-town, blue-collared America, specifically, Dunkirk in upstate New York, a town which was, as one...more
I read some of these poems in Jason's chapbook Some Days It's a Love Story; in this full-length collection, which won Pavement Saw's Transcontinental Poetry Award, the poems reappear with even greater force, partly due to the larger narrative of which they now form a part. Watering the Dead accumulates power in its depiction of the stunted lives and thwarted dreams of small-town, blue-collared America, specifically, Dunkirk in upstate New York, a town which was, as one...more
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Read in October, 2008
Great poems about real life in a small town (though some of it is less specific to small-town-ness than one would think, and seems to ring true in Queens or Brooklyn too).
I've never been partial to narrative poems-- I always ideologically preferred poems with metaphysical whizbang, words meant to detonate, not simmer. But reading this book made me rethink that pose, because there's something quiet & careful & accurate here that aims at a different type of transcendence. In this case...more
I've never been partial to narrative poems-- I always ideologically preferred poems with metaphysical whizbang, words meant to detonate, not simmer. But reading this book made me rethink that pose, because there's something quiet & careful & accurate here that aims at a different type of transcendence. In this case...more
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