Chance Ransom: POEMS

Chance Ransom: POEMS

by Kevin Stein
ISBN-10:
0252068629
ISBN-13:
9780252068621
Pub. Date:
07/07/2000
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press
ISBN-10:
0252068629
ISBN-13:
9780252068621
Pub. Date:
07/07/2000
Publisher:
University of Illinois Press
Chance Ransom: POEMS

Chance Ransom: POEMS

by Kevin Stein

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Overview

Winner of Poetry's Frederick Bock Prize and the Indiana Review Poetry Prize, Kevin Stein casts a wide net over the "ineffable befuddlement" of everyday life. His poems render history's chance larder of the consecrated and profane from which we ransom our fate.

Often improvisational and always lyrical, Stein's poems move effortlessly through the art of Beckmann and Degas, the music of Bob Marley and garage bands, and the pathos of cancer patients, factory workers, and victims of bigotry. Insightful and refreshingly unaffected, Chance Ransom explores the shifting shore between self and other with clarity and compassion.

About the Author:

Kevin Stein, a professor of English at Bradley University, Illinois, has published two previous collections of poetry, Bruised Paradise and A Circus of Want, as well as two critical studies, Private Poets, Worldly Acts and James Wright: The Poetry of a Grown Man.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780252068621
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 07/07/2000
Series: Illinois Poetry Series
Pages: 112
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.40(d)

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Yusef Komunyakaa

Kevin Stein's Chance Ransom possesses a narrative thrust that is instructive to the modern heart, and this haunting collection also shows us what we have often been cultivated to overlook. There's a deep seeing in Chance Ransom where forthrightness and honed beauty earn our trust. The everydayness of life is the foundation of this wonderful collection that troubles the waters of a kingdom out of reach and within us--the dualism of pathos and happiness that makes us whole.

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