Melody's Fool

by Jake Spatz

Overview

"Melody's Fool" brings together the sonnets and songs of Jake Spatz, along with a generous handful of free-verse addresses and satirical pieces. Included here are the fan favorites "To a Nihilist," "Wanting Music" and "Piglet," along with 30 other remarkable pieces of verse. The volume concludes with the hilariously rambling fragment "Verses for 'Pirithous'," originally written for a burlesque show.

Crafted with the same attention to detail and expert formatting that readers have come to expect from Charles & Wonder, "Melody's Fool" presents the wide formal variety of Spatz's poetry with a great look even on small devices. Every line has been properly indented to portray the poet's intention clearly and accurately, and the text has been thoroughly edited for readability.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014377713
Publisher:	Charles & Wonder
Publication date:	05/25/2012
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	425 KB

About the Author

JAKE SPATZ was born in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1977, and made it to the age of 25 with roughly equal portions of time in Miami, Northern Virginia, and New York. He received a B.A. from Sarah Lawrence College in 1999. During a year in Florence he studied art conversation, printmaking, and literature, all of which have impacted his work since then (as a restorer of vintage audio, an illustrator, and an editor, respectively). He has written occasional pieces for both stage and screen, and did a stint as the Narrator in the “Ixion Burlesque Show” (2003). A few of his poems and translations have been broadcast by NPR stations. In 2005 he was the lead book critic for the Washinton Examiner newspaper. He was the male lead in the amateur play “El Tango Es Una Historia” in 2007, and has also danced in two television commercials and numerous live performances, including events at the Washington Performing Arts Society, the Kennedy Center, and Disneyworld. Spatz has translated several works of Italian poetry (mainly Leopardi and Dante) and more than one hundred tango lyrics, thirty of which appear in the book In Strangers’ Arms by Beatriz Dujovne (McFarland, 2011). He also translated the passage which forms the finale of Alejandro Martino’s epic poem Bravia (Amerhispana, 2011). Since 2005, he has freelanced as an editor and multimedia designer, but has mostly worked as a tango dancer, in Washington, D.C.