The Slaughterhouse Poems
A Poetry book. fantastic full-length poetry debut by Dave Newman. Am a big fan of his previously...
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE POEMS, Dave Newman’s first full-length poetry collection, is a series of narrative poems that tell the stories of people often kept behind the scenes in American literature – slaughterhouse workers, bowling-alley managers, strippers, prisoners dreaming of better lives. Written in the spirit of world poets like Nicanor Parra and Nazim Hikmet, coupled with American grittiness, Newman’s poems hold a place of their own – real, heartfelt, true.
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- Filetype: PDF
- Pages: 166 pages
- ISBN: 9780988445918 / 0
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My review:http://www.cleavermagazine.com/the-sl... fantastic full-length poetry debut by Dave Newman. Am a big fan of his previously self-published poetry collections, Allen Ginsburg Comes to Pittsburgh and The Beer Factory, as well as his fantastic 2nd novel, Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children, and now I have this gem to add to my collection. Poems are relatively thematic in... If you're new to Newman, you're in for a treat...and, if you already know his work, then The Slaughterhouse Poems deliver. And you'd expect nothing less from one of Pittsburgh's best writers -- tough, tender, and unflinching blue collar poems that remind us that the slaughterhouse can be found just about anywhere. A fine opening salvo...
