Is Music Is Music

Is Music

New and Selected Poems

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Publisher Description

“John Taggart’s poetry is not like music, it is music.”—George Oppen

Is Music—a major retrospective of an American original—gathers the best poems from John Taggart’s fourteen volumes, ranging from early objectivist experiments and jazz-influenced improvisational pieces to longer breathtaking compositions regarded as underground masterpieces. There is a prayerful quality to Taggart’s poetry, rooted in music—from medieval Christian traditions and soul to American punk rock. He is also heavily influenced by the visual arts, most notably in his classic “Slow Song for Mark Rothko,” in which he did with words what Rothko did with paint and dye.

To breathe and stretch one’s arms again
to breathe through the mouth to breathe to
breathe through the mouth to utter in
the most quiet way not to whisper not to whisper
to breathe through the mouth in the most quiet way to
breathe to sing to breathe to sing to breathe
to sing the most quiet way.


To sing to light the most quiet light in darkness
radiantia radiantia
singing light in darkness.


To sing as the host sings in his house.

John Taggart is the author of fourteen books of poetry and two books of criticism. He was, for many years, a professor of English and director of the Interdisciplinary Arts Program at Shippensburg University. He lives near Shippensburg, Pennsylvania.

GENRE
Fiction & Literature
RELEASED
2013
July 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
180
Pages
PUBLISHER
Copper Canyon Press
SELLER
Perseus Books, LLC
SIZE
7.7
MB

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