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The Goblet Crying for Wine |
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The Goblet Crying for Wine is Fran Quinn's first full length compliation of poems. Released in 1995 by the Blue Sofa Press this colllection of poems offers the reader the breadth and scope of the poets talent. "These poems give a true sense of just how vast and influential
the metaphor has upon our daily lives... Fran Quinn has pulled back the
veil and given us a peek beyond the other side of ordinary" |
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"Fran Quinn's potery is related
to William Carlos Williams' in its inclusion of coffee cups and door-stoops
next to intense feeling and elegant turns of phrase. In a time of coolness,
he has written marvelous love poems. In a time of neo-cortex language poetry,
his words are clear and weighty. His narrative poem about a dying man who
keeps telling him to bury next to his first wife is a small comic masterpiece.
This collection by Fran Quinn, his first full length book, is an occasion
for celebration." ~ Robert Bly, poet, essayist and editor |
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cover art: Morris Graves "Asian Bloom" courtesy Seatle Art Museum, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fisher. photo credit: Paul Macapia |
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"The poem's balance of passion and intellect, along with a wildness and strangeness distinguishes it. As well, it unselfconciously bypasses the prevailing mode of narrative, domestic poetry and simply speaks. In that sense it feels wholly authentic and written on an irresistable impulse, as ELiot puts it. It's a wanton and precise lyric." on awarding the Hopewell Award |
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" I am awed by how well made these poems are, on a variety of subjects: about 'the dark cave we used to call/home;' about friendship and desire; about the mysterious mixture of pride and shame in being human, in being male." ~ Micheal True, author of An Energy Field More Intense Than War, Professor of English at Assumption Colllege |
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