The Apprentice of Fever: Poems (Wick Poetry First Book Series) (Wick Poetry First Books (Paperback))
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (800 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0873386159 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 70 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-01-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Christopher S. Soden said Five Stars. Mr. Tayson's collection, stunning, astonishing, electrifying, fearless, tender, unforgettable, and exquisite. Everything that poetry must and should be.. "A Fine Quickie" according to C.Santiago. I picked this book up as a last minute resort for a poetry course's final project. The assignment was to choose a contemporary poet and do a "book report". I went downtown and after some minor hunting, I encountered for the first time Richard Tayson. I picked the book up and figured that I might be able to at least tackle the begining during the hour long train ride home. Not only was I able to read . A keeper I picked this book up one morning with the intention of leafing through it and maybe reading a few of the poems and coming back to it another day. Instead, I picked it up and never put it down until I had read every last word. It took me the rest of the day to absorb and process all the emotions I experienced while reading this beautiful book.
Winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, this collection of poems centres around the day-to-day life of a man implicated in the AIDS epidemic.
From Kirkus Reviews Marilyn Hacker picked this debut for the press Wick Award a collection by a New York poet she admires for his supposedly transgressive focus on things corporeal and for his passionate discussion of his homosexuality and his lovers demise by AIDS. The poets apparent self-loathing and his survivors guilt seem conventions within the genre, which he seldom transcends in these clear but formally uninspired verses. Elsewhere, Tayson remembers fearing Gods wrath (The Gift) and experiencing separation from both God and family (First Sex), only to find spiritual ecstasy in sex (The Ascension), especially in anal penetration (Sacred Anus). -- Copyright ©1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. The best rely on indirection and deviate from the straight-forward AIDS narrative: Phone Sex splices the recordings heard on a sex line with memories of an affair with a married man and proclaims the poets unabashed lust (I love all mens cocks); Love as an Argument in Time a