Books : Speaking in Tongues: Selected Poems, 1974-1994
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by: Charles Ghigna
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 811.54
EAN: 9780942979206
ISBN: 0942979206
Label: Livingston Press (AL)
Manufacturer: Livingston Press (AL)
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 134
Publication Date: 1994-06
Publisher: Livingston Press (AL)
Sales Rank: 6077360
Studio: Livingston Press (AL)
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - Well crafted; broad range
I highly recommend this book. It is divided into sections that reveal a broad range of style and subject. Readers who delight in word play will particulary enjoy the poems on the circus and on authors. My favorite section is the one on Howard, an ambitious series of poems on an enigmatic schoolmate named Howard. "When Howard Became Jesus" will send a tingle down your spine. Sometimes to be pitied, Howard's actions nonetheless provoke self-reflection in the narrator and other persons who know ... Read More
Rating: - PAUL RIFFIN
"A masterful collection of poetic strength and clairty of vision; poems dealing with a broad range of subjects from a fighter learning of hands, to a mystical man named Howard trying to find himself in a world all but beyond his grasp." --Paul Ruffin, 1994
Rating: - X.J. KENNEDY
"Charles Ghigna writes with appealing freshness, placing his words exactly and concisely, with a mean eye for a metaphor. He takes aim often at difficult and elusive targets, and he hits far more than his quota. His best poems -- and many are particularly fine -- read like short, hard chisel-jabs into a sheet of granite." --X.J. Kennedy, 1994
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