Esta web utiliza cookies propias y de terceros que nos permiten optimizar tu experiencia en el sitio web, evaluar su rendimiento, generar estadísticas de uso y mejorar y añadir nuevas funcionalidades. Mediante el análisis de tus hábitos de navegación podemos mostrar contenidos más relevantes y medir las interacciones con la web.
Puede obtener más información aquí.

Avanzado
Artículos
Portada

LIFE IN THE SECOND CIRCLE IBD

MICHAEL CANTOR
ABLE MUSE PRESS
03 / 2012
9780987870551
Inglés

Sinopsis

Life in the Second Circle is the first collection from Michael Cantor, finalist in the 2011 Able Muse Book Award. CantorâÇÖs poetry globe-trots in time and place. It teems with such culturally diverse characters and scenes as Genghis Khan and Muhammad Ali, a pithy mise-en-scÿne of a Venice travelogue, Brighton Beach in Florida and its natives or turistas, and what can happen in Japan on tatami mats or behind shoji screens, whether you&rsquo,re a geisha or samurai or gaijin. His themes span the mystical to the hard-edged and &ldquo,badass,âÇÑ fluently deployed in formal poems in received or nonce forms and free verse. From the narrative to the imagistic and even the surreal, CantorâÇÖs versecraft is eclectic, brimming with wit and wisdom, and realized with the craft of a master storyteller. He has created a collection of unique pleasures not to be missed.PRAISE FOR LIFE IN THE SECOND CIRCLE:DanteâÇÖs second circle of hell was reserved for sins of lust, but CantorâÇÖs narrator does not judge his infernal cast of characters, rather, he causes us to identify with their essential human neediness. WhatâÇÖs more, he does so through a cinematic gift for storytelling and a mastery of poetic form.áááááááááááááá –, Julie KaneMichael Cantor uses words to paint and sculpt the world. He writes the world tooâÇöwhich I donâÇÖt say as an afterthought, since verbal wit is CantorâÇÖs forte. Life in the Second Circle is a sensory kaleidoscope where the poems are more like movies.áááááááááááááá –, Deborah Warren (from the âÇúForewordâÇÑ) To be called âÇúa poetâÇÖs poetâÇÑ passes for a compliment among poets. Michael Cantor is another, rarer kind of poetâÇöletâÇÖs say âÇúa novelistâÇÖs poet.âÇÑ This poet knows things that writers of fiction know about writing, and that other poets ignore at their peril. This extraordinary collection is testament to his unaffected generosity and genuine interest in other people, qualities that make him good company in person and in print.áááááááááááááá –, Alfred NicolThis is not your motherâÇÖs book of poems.áááááááááááááá –, Wendy VidelockLike Muhammad Ali, one of the âÇúBox MenâÇÑ he celebrates in a virtuosic crown of sonnets, Cantor is a master of floating like a butterfly in a small, roped-off space. In his hands the most formidably difficult formsâÇövillanelles, triolets, Petrarchan sonnets, sestinas, ballades, and equally rigorous stanzas of his own inventionâÇöbecome spurs to imaginative freedom. Like the vividly drawn characters who populate Life in the Second Circle, we are constantly reminded that one never knows where life will go, or how or when or where. But itâÇÖs a pleasure to be along for the ride.áááááááááááááá –, Catherine TufarielloABOUT THE AUTHOR:Michael CantorâÇÖs work has appeared in Measure, The Dark Horse, The Raintown Review, Umbrella, SCR, Margie, Chimaera and numerous other journals, e-zines and anthologies. His honors include the New England Poetry Club Erika Mumford (2006) a

PVP
15,55€