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Poetry. California Studies. Winner of the Dorset Prize, selected by Edward Hirsch. As in a profound love affair, Thomas Centolella's new poems register attraction, delight, expectations fulfilled and foiled, and moments of great feeling cherished and/or lamented. Employing the vividness of narrative without yielding to its linear strictures and overly familiar tonalities, many of the first-person protagonists in ALMOST HUMAN: POEMS are mysterious figures at once engaging and idiosyncratic, even outright eccentric. Often betwixt and between, neither here nor there, they are uncertain of actually getting anywhere. ALMOST HUMAN: POEMS documents the restive life-force incarnated in an endangered species--our own--and charts the movement of the self between spirit and human, recalling the idea, attributed to Teilhard de Chardin, that we aren't human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.

Thomas Centolella is one of those poets whose deeply thoughtful poems are best read on a quiet evening beneath stars. Philosophical without being didactic, they unfold, usually with the help of a chance human encounter, a sight, smell or sound emanating from the city, all while musing on an old master's lost notion. Quite simply, I love his meandering poems which twist and turn as if walking a labyrinth of back streets. ALMOST HUMAN is an unusual combination of urban and spiritual, the eternal and the every day.--Dorianne Laux


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781936797974
  • Publisher: Tupelo Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Tupelo Press
  • Height: 226 mm
  • No of Pages: 98
  • Spine Width: 10 mm
  • Width: 147 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1936797976
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jul 2017
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 209 gr


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