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A Sort of Adam Infant Dropped: True Myths
Drawing upon cultural myths to explain his personal and family myths, R. Scott Yarbrough writes poems that will touch you with their lyrical intensity, will engage you with vivid anecdotes, will offer emotional experiences made vivid by a masterful use of images, and will leave you with feelings and ideas worth pondering.
- GenresPoetry
112 pages, Paperback
First published January 25, 2013
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April 17, 2020
Very enjoyable and a touchingly person collection. The author's recognized status as an award winning professor is substantiated by the quality of this work. Even if you are not a fan of poetry these poems manage to communicate so much with so few words.
October 29, 2013
The first book of poetry by Piper Professor R. Scott Yarbrough collects pieces previously published in a variety of journals alongside new verse. Published by Ink Brush Press, the volume repurposes the symbols, tropes and plots of myth and biblical tales to explore Yarbrough’s family’s eccentric history and his place in that small-town Texas pantheon.
Along the way, the poet exposes universal truths, cracking open the enduring kernel of meaning at the heart of all myth. Yarbrough’s clear verse features dense lines, almost counterpunctual enjambed rhythms and artful juxtaposition of the mundane and the sublime.
Among my favorites are “Halloween: for the Sake of Tradition,” which shows that more than mere supernatural darkness is released on the 31st; “Sunday School Lesson,” revealing the moving ability of a pastor to forgive the youthful sacrilege of his sons; “Oedipus Rex Meets Tiresias at Walmart,” in which dramatic irony is given a decidedly modern spin; and “Didn’t Pinocchio Know?” a piece that questions the puppet’s desire to abandon his magical life and become a real boy.
Along the way, the poet exposes universal truths, cracking open the enduring kernel of meaning at the heart of all myth. Yarbrough’s clear verse features dense lines, almost counterpunctual enjambed rhythms and artful juxtaposition of the mundane and the sublime.
Among my favorites are “Halloween: for the Sake of Tradition,” which shows that more than mere supernatural darkness is released on the 31st; “Sunday School Lesson,” revealing the moving ability of a pastor to forgive the youthful sacrilege of his sons; “Oedipus Rex Meets Tiresias at Walmart,” in which dramatic irony is given a decidedly modern spin; and “Didn’t Pinocchio Know?” a piece that questions the puppet’s desire to abandon his magical life and become a real boy.
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