Although many of the poems here unfold among the small towns, abandoned farms, and slate skies of the rural Midwest, their larger landscape is the sheer fact; geographical, psychological, metaphysical; of "absences like so many lighted windows as you walk through a strange city, wanting to fill them with imaginary lives and words and stories."
Although many of the poems here unfold among the small towns, abandoned farms, and slate skies of the rural Midwest, their larger landscape is the she...
B. H. Fairchild's memory systems are the collective vision of America's despairing dreamers failed baseball players, oil field laborers, a surrealist priest, college boys at a burlesque theater, the last remaining cast members of The Wizard of Oz. Looming over all is the fact and the mystery of our continued renewal."
B. H. Fairchild's memory systems are the collective vision of America's despairing dreamers failed baseball players, oil field laborers, a surrealist ...
B.H. Fairchild's "The Art of the Lathe "is a collection of poems centering on the working-class world of the Midwest, the isolations of small-town life, and the possibilities and occasions of beauty and grace among the machine shops and oil fields of rural Kansas.
B.H. Fairchild's "The Art of the Lathe "is a collection of poems centering on the working-class world of the Midwest, the isolations of small-town ...
"Fairchild's ability not only to choose a story but to pace it and to reveal its meaning through the unfolding of the narrative is probably unmatched in contemporary American poetry. The incisive psychology, the vividly descriptive diction, the large repertoire of vocabulary, the weightiness of his settings and plots: all these contribute to the delightful sensation that one is reading, simultaneously, the best poetry and best prose. I cannot think of another living poet capable of delivering such pleasure... Not since James Wright has there been a poet so skilled at representing the minds...
"Fairchild's ability not only to choose a story but to pace it and to reveal its meaning through the unfolding of the narrative is probably unmatched ...
From Manhattan to the rural Midwest one of our most distinguished poets offers a verbal cinema of America. Employing dramatic monologues, among other forms, Usher embraces a range of subject matter and modes, from the elegiac to the comic. At its heart, however, is the long poem Trilogy, consisting of three interrelated dramatic monologues spoken by a circus performer, a theological student and part-time usher, and Hart Crane. A Los Angeles Times Favorite Book of 2009."
From Manhattan to the rural Midwest one of our most distinguished poets offers a verbal cinema of America. Employing dramatic monologues, among other ...
Fairchild's poetry covers a wide range, both geographically and intellectually, though it finds its center in the rural Midwest: in oilfields and dying small towns, in taverns, baseball fields, one-screen movie theaters, and skies "vast, mysterious, and bored." Ultimately, its cultural scope--where Mozart stands beside Patsy Cline, with Grunewald, Godel, and Rothko only a subway ride from the Hollywood films of the 1950s--transcends region and decade to explore the relationship of memory to the imagination and the mysteries of time and being. And finally there is the character of Roy...
Fairchild's poetry covers a wide range, both geographically and intellectually, though it finds its center in the rural Midwest: in oilfields and d...
Fairchild's poetry covers a wide range, both geographically and intellectually, though it finds its center in the rural Midwest: in oilfields and dying small towns, in taverns, baseball fields, one-screen movie theaters, and skies "vast, mysterious, and bored." Ultimately, its cultural scope--where Mozart stands beside Patsy Cline, with Grunewald, Godel, and Rothko only a subway ride from the Hollywood films of the 1950s--transcends region and decade to explore the relationship of memory to the imagination and the mysteries of time and being. And finally there is the character of Roy...
Fairchild's poetry covers a wide range, both geographically and intellectually, though it finds its center in the rural Midwest: in oilfields and d...
