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Say Uncle: Poems
Kay Ryan
Grove Press
October 2000
On Sale: September 30, 2000
80 pages
ISBN: 0802137172
EAN: 9780802137173
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Fiction Poetry
Filled with wry logic and a magical, unpredictable
musicality, Kay Ryan's poems continue to generate excitement
with their frequent appearances in The New Yorker and other
leading periodicals. Say Uncle, Ryan's fifth collection, is
filled with the same hidden connections, the same slyness
and almost gleeful detachment that has delighted readers of
her earlier books. Compact, searching, and oddly beautiful,
these poems, in the words of Dana Gioia, "take the shape of
an idea clarifying itself." "A poetry collection that marries wit and wisdom more
brilliantly than any I know.... Poetry as statement and
aphorism is rarely heartbreaking, but reading these poems I
find myself continually ambushed by a fundamental sorrow,
one that hides behind a surface that interweaves sound and
sense in immaculately interesting ways. " -- Jane Hirshfield, Common Boundary; "The first thing you notice about her poems is an
elbow-to-the-ribs playfulness." -- Patricia Holt, San
Francisco Chronicle
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