A book-length poem about imagination, loneliness and circumstance as told by a blossom concubine in a Palace of snow and ice. The fourth book by William Frank combines lyrical virtuosity with spiraling imagery to create a moving poem of spectacle, sadness and Grace.
"What I cannot a blossom thinks."
"My books are ashes in the grate."
"I write this carelessly and late"
"and You have had too much to drink..."
."..I with punishments have learned"
"to show my fans, hide my music"
"though these and this will, too, be burned."
"I for that resent Your Eunuchs" ...
A book-length poem about imagination, loneliness and circumstance as told by a blossom concubine in a Palace of snow and ice. The fourth book by Willi...
"Here follow the visits I received across the last two nights of the Anthesteria, which for the most part was why I didn't meet you by the fountain; for I was in quite another place..." The Morphine Fawn is a book that deftly interweaves a variety of traditional forms with free narratives that include Account Ledgers, Patent Applications, Rituals and Personal Letters to depict the boundless comedy, cruelty, excess and sorrow of life as festival. Set during the Anthesteria, a celebration of the opening of the wine casks and the return of the Dead, each love poem is a visitation sure to both...
"Here follow the visits I received across the last two nights of the Anthesteria, which for the most part was why I didn't meet you by the fountain; f...
"As we look to faith and our thoughts, what comes out may be beauty. The Encolpia is a collection of poetry from William Frank as he explores poetic tradition by bending and warping it in his own way to create an original message. The Encolpia is poetry worth thinking about, recommended." Midwest Book Review, Carl Logan
"The Encolpia" for one is a sonnet sequence that encircles and glitters and insists, like the reliquaries they inhabit, a meditation importuned.
"As we look to faith and our thoughts, what comes out may be beauty. The Encolpia is a collection of poetry from William Frank as he explores poet...
The "Fiasco Galante" is a book of poetry that sings the high and low with equal cecity, and one that fits neatly in its culture. It is color and imagination in the ambling between high art and low-budget romp, joy and sadness, brutality and fun, love and distance. It is a lyrical book with formal style, mixing traditional music with broken furniture. However books entice readers to take a chance or, midway through, fillip you to keep us on the nightstand and press on, I can only humbly ask or offer, What other book of poetry are you reading that has Elephants, Henchmen, cookies, hypnotists,...
The "Fiasco Galante" is a book of poetry that sings the high and low with equal cecity, and one that fits neatly in its culture. It is color and imagi...
