Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2004. The poems of "The Black Beach" describe everyday acts like putting children to bed, coaching Little League, and sending a daughter to school, but brood over what may be behind the everyday and how to reach it and talk to it. Faith ebbs and flows like the tide on a black beach of heaven, while these poems maintain skepticism, denying transcendence beyond what is available through love, the senses, and experience. Number Twelve: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry"
Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2004. The poems of "The Black Beach" describe everyday acts like putting children to bed, coaching L...
Classical deities and down-and-out junkies, high school sweethearts and the inner life of JFK these are the coordinates of J.T. Barbarese s terrain. The poems in "Sweet Spot "set up shop where average lived experience meets American history. Masterfully evokes both the specific land- and cityscapes of his poems as well the psychological types of the varied characters that populate them, "Sweet Spot "confirms Barbarese s preeminence as a chronicler of the heroic everyday, the telling detail, the subtle reminders of the human predicament hidden in habit and memory."
Classical deities and down-and-out junkies, high school sweethearts and the inner life of JFK these are the coordinates of J.T. Barbarese s terrain...
