{"product_id":"tongue-groove-9780252074738","title":"Tongue  Groove","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA poetic rendering of life in New York City\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"I can think of almost no other young poet who can claim Stephen Cramer's lyric authority and self-possession. His odes and elegies capture the grit and delights of New York City in a manner that manages to capture something of Crane's sense of the marvelous with Oppen's descriptive acuity. This is to say he follows in the footsteps of the giants--and he shows himself abundantly capable of filling their shoes. Tongue \u0026amp; Groove is a ravishing book.\"--David Wojahn\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Cramer's \u003ci\u003eTongue and Groove\u003c\/i\u003e celebrates Manhattan's vibrancy and the passionate self-expression of its denizens. . . . \u003ci\u003eTongue and Groove \u003c\/i\u003eis a book of linguistic and formal performance. . . . This performance is fluent and exuberant.\"--\u003ci\u003eAntioch Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Stephen Cramer's \u003ci\u003eTongue \u0026amp; Groove\u003c\/i\u003e seeks unity through clarity. Each poem here forms a world of its own, but the poet . . . gives us a map of sound, where the pastoral and the urban inform each other, and the only level and plumb line that matter is the heart.\"--Yusef Komunyakaa\u003cbr\u003e\"What I love about these poems is the parabolic nature of so many of them: the very concrete physicality of the language that turns quickly in some new direction, or makes a connection with a shift of pronoun or verb tense that opens the poem out, gives it space.\"--Jean Gallagher\u003cbr\u003e\"All of the poems in this collection are aesthetically carved. Each an organically conceived arrangement with its own unique shape . . . a clustering of lines in stanzas, lively but restrained swirls of symmetries.\"--Scott Hightower","brand":"MO - University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036840690007,"sku":"9780252074738","price":15.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252074738.jpg?v=1750932718","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/tongue-groove-9780252074738","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}