Calvin Bedient, Author . Univ. of Notre Dame
, $TK (424p) ISBN (385p) ISBN 978-0-268-02206-8
If one is of the mind that W.B. Yeats is a bit overrated as a poet and that his brother, Jack B. Yeats, underrated as a painter, this book is a must. Although Bedient, a poet and professor of English at UCLA, does not exactly derogate Yeats the poet,
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Calvin Bedient. Omnidawn (IPG, dist.), $15.95 paper (88p) ISBN 978-1-890650-66-7
"Having stubbed God out with thinking/ I tried to burn down in my own springy flame." Such exclamations and other outrageous discoveries dominate Bedient's forceful and sometimes disorganized fourth book of verse. Known since the 1970s for his...
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Cal Bedient, Author, Calvin Bedient, Author . Univ. of Georgia $16.95 (112p) ISBN 978-0-8203-2390-9
A veteran literary critic, Bedient published his debut collection—the apocalyptically rhetorical, sometimes chaotic and insistently sexual Candy Necklace—in 1999. In this follow-up, single poems pursue elaborate jokes ("Was It [pain
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Cal Bedient, Author, Calvin Bedient, Author Wesleyan University Press $14.95 (104p) ISBN 978-0-8195-1221-5
Bedient writes with a painter's sensibility, the manifestations of which are threefold. One: splashes of color and references to art spring up in nearly every poem. Sometimes the effect is calming (""the only pink/ left by evening is the blush on a...
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Cal Bedient, Author, Calvin Bedient, Author Wesleyan University Press $26 (104p) ISBN 978-0-8195-2234-4
Bedient writes with a painter's sensibility, the manifestations of which are threefold. One: splashes of color and references to art spring up in nearly every poem. Sometimes the effect is calming (""the only pink/ left by evening is the blush on a...
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