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Highlights
- Deeply felt and brimming with humor and philosophical inquiry, Sporadic Troubleshooting, the latest volume from Clarence Major, both acknowledges poetic literary tradition and explores exciting new territories in language.
- About the Author: Prize-winning poet, painter, and novelist Clarence Major is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis.
- 96 Pages
- Poetry, American
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"Deeply felt and carefully constructed, the poems in this new collection by Clarence Major both acknowledge poetic literary tradition and explore exciting new narrative and lyrical territories. Throughout Sporadic Troubleshooting, Major uses jazz-like improvisation, applying it to well-known mythological stories to enhance narrative intensity the way Miles Davis applies innovative techniques to a standard Cole Porter number. Breathtakingly vivid, these poems are testaments to such universal subjects as love, charity, nature, fear, survival, loyalty, justice, and beauty. Major's poems offer hopeful glimpses of life with a view toward renewal and transformation"--Book Synopsis
Deeply felt and brimming with humor and philosophical inquiry, Sporadic Troubleshooting, the latest volume from Clarence Major, both acknowledges poetic literary tradition and explores exciting new territories in language. Throughout, Major uses an improvisational technique, applying it to well-known mythological stories to enhance narrative and lyrical intensity. Breathtakingly vivid, these poems are testaments to universal subjects such as love, charity, nature, fear, survival, loyalty, justice, and beauty. Major's poems offer vigorous inquiries into life and art with a view toward renewal and transformation.
About the Author
Prize-winning poet, painter, and novelist Clarence Major is Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Davis. He was a 1999 Bronze Medal National Book Award finalist in poetry, and in 2015 the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation honored him with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in the Fine Arts. In 2016, he received the PEN Oakland Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of more than thirty volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction.