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Massacre of the Innocents
University of Iowa Press, 1995 Paper: 978-0-87745-492-2 | eISBN: 978-1-58729-199-9 Library of Congress Classification PS3568.A446M37 1995 Dewey Decimal Classification 811.54
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Massacre of the Innocents is the work of a secular poet who admires the basic texts—the angry qualities of fairytales equally along with the humorous virtues of sacred scriptures. Speaking with the voice of mature accomplishments, Ramke's poems do not struggle for their words but release them from a near-inexhaustible source. As Ramke has said, “Poems are like children and have minds and manners of their own, luckily beyond the control of parents and poets.” These poems talk back—and they talk to each other. By stripping away the distractions of received meaning from the words he uses, Ramke makes necessary connections between reader and poem that can freshen meaning—make it new—as is often claimed for poetry but seldom achieved so well as in his work. See other books on: American | Innocents | Massacre | Poetry | Ramke, Bin See other titles from University of Iowa Press |
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Massacre of the Innocents
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University of Iowa Press, 1995
Paper: 978-0-87745-492-2
eISBN: 978-1-58729-199-9
Paper: 978-0-87745-492-2
eISBN: 978-1-58729-199-9
Massacre of the Innocents is the work of a secular poet who admires the basic texts—the angry qualities of fairytales equally along with the humorous virtues of sacred scriptures. Speaking with the voice of mature accomplishments, Ramke's poems do not struggle for their words but release them from a near-inexhaustible source.
As Ramke has said, “Poems are like children and have minds and manners of their own, luckily beyond the control of parents and poets.” These poems talk back—and they talk to each other. By stripping away the distractions of received meaning from the words he uses, Ramke makes necessary connections between reader and poem that can freshen meaning—make it new—as is often claimed for poetry but seldom achieved so well as in his work.
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