Just Like Oz

by George Drew

Overview

Just Like Oz, a book consisting of eighteen essays, some short and some long, mostly examines the work of “wizard poets,” some well-known and even iconic, a few unknown to the wider literary community. George Drew’s purpose is to take a deep critical dive into the art of poetry by analyzing the work of those wizard poets and, in doing so, praising them and their shimmering art. For those poets, Drew shows us, the poetic flood flowered. For readers, these essays provide a kind of yellow brick road into an Oz of truth and beauty that is the magic realm of poetry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781956440133
Publisher:	Madville Publishing
Publication date:	10/18/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	158
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

George Drew is the author of nine poetry collections, including Pastoral Habits: New and Selected Poems and The View from Jackass Hill, winner of the 2010 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, both from Texas Review Press, Fancy’s Orphan, Tiger Bark Press, and most recently Drumming Armageddon, Madville Publishing, 2020. Drew also has published a chapbook, So Many Bones: Poems of Russia. He has a new chapbook coming out titled Hog: A Delta Memoir, Bass Clef Press. He has won awards such as the South Carolina Review Poetry Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award, the Adirondack Literary Award, the St. Petersburg Review Poetry Contest, the Knightville Poetry Contest and in 2020 the William Faulkner Literary Competition. Drew was a recipient of the Bucks County Muse Award in 2016 for contributions to the Bucks County PA. literary community. His biography appears in Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide, U. of Mississippi Press, edited by Catherine Savage Brosman. In 2019 Drew collaborated with singer/songwriter Rick Kunz on a CD of original poetry and songs entitled A Triumph of Loneliness, KBW Music.

George Drew is the author of nine poetry collections, including Pastoral Habits: New and Selected Poems and The View from Jackass Hill, winner of the 2010 X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, both from Texas Review Press, Fancy's Orphan, Tiger Bark Press, and most recently Drumming Armageddon, Madville Publishing, 2020. Drew also has published a chapbook, So Many Bones: Poems of Russia. He has a new chapbook coming out titled Hog: A Delta Memoir, Bass Clef Press. He has won awards such as the South Carolina Review Poetry Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Award, the Adirondack Literary Award, the St. Petersburg Review Poetry Contest, the Knightville Poetry Contest and in 2020 the William Faulkner Literary Competition. Drew was a recipient of the Bucks County Muse Award in 2016 for contributions to the Bucks County PA. literary community. His biography appears in Mississippi Poets: A Literary Guide, U. of Mississippi Press, edited by Catherine Savage Brosman. In 2019 Drew collaborated with singer/songwriter Rick Kunz on a CD of original poetry and songs entitled A Triumph of Loneliness, KBW Music.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

xi Of Puffery

Wizard

1 Lodging a Poem

4 Poems that Jack Took: The Dressing Down of an Editor

14 Crazy Dance: What Actually is Being Said in Father/Son Poems

Random Wizards

27 I Beg You, Ezra

32 In the Kingdom of Babies: Galway Kinnell

34 The Name is Kumin, Not Frost

37 The Gods, the Genes and a Fire Raging in the Belly

Wizard

41 Sometimes That a Poem Is Masterful Is Enough

47 Fixing the Shimmer: The Hard Art of Poetry

56 What Makes a Poem a Master Work?

67 Up Against Time: Physics & the Poem

Oz

75 And the Flood Flowers Now: On the Trail of the First Hippie

80 Lingering Sweetness: On the Road with George

83 Just Like Oz: The Making of a Book

Behind the Curtain

91 Marble All the Way: The Poetry of Allen Hoey

132 Nude Man in the Water: The Poetry of David Dooley

140 What Students Need to Know about Syntax

142 Acknowledgments

143 About the Author