All the Money in the World
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Synopsis:
In an array of approaches as varied as its subject matter, All the Money in the World explores love, loss, music, mystery, tensions, terrors, ecstasies, and endings. By turns lyrical, abstract, anguished, celebratory, humorous and reflective, these poems move between a nuanced appreciation of how things are and an intense longing for how they might be.
Book Excerpt:
Sample Poem:
Saxalone
The saxophone player
plays alone, though
the drumsticks blaze
and the bass thuds
down in a scud
of hail, the piano
runs to the edge
of the scale
and the trumpet
spits out its
notes like teeth.
The saxophone player
charges, retreats.
Slamming the door
on harmony, flip-
ping the lock he
pockets the key.
Sleek and gleaming
three times his horn
flaunts the melody,
brassy with scorn.
When he isn't blowing
he stands and frowns,
thin frame swaying
behind the beat.
When the riffs get
wicked he crouches
right down. He's
a fetus wrapped
round a silver
horn. He's a
lion clutching
his lover in heat.
He takes the tune
through lost and
found, arms held
stiff, head bent
down, but he
can't keep his
can't keep his
can't keep his
can't keep his
can't keep his
feet on the ground.
Topics/Categories:
Contemporary relationships, Jazz poems, miscellaneous topics
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Original Publish Date:
June 1, 1999
Publishing Notes:
Published in Ireland by Salmon Poetry and available in the U.S. thru Amazon. Review: "All the Money in the World ... marks an auspicious beginning, ... humorous, ironic, erotic, neurotic, and tender both by turns & often simultaneously ... quite wonderful." Kirkus Reviews
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