Country Album

by James Capozzi

Overview

At one moment, while reading James Capozzi’s manuscript, it occurred to me that he might actually be a Martian who learned to write by studying the incomplete works of John Donne, Raymond Queneau, and J. G. Ballard. But that only tells part of the story. He seems to have traveled to different countries—Spain, New Jersey, and Nevada—and recognized that all of them are foreign. Ghosts and ghostly voices rise up from the ground. Without falling into some obvious pattern or strategy, Capozzi puts words together that sound as if they have been connubial all along. The best poems worm their way into the reader’s brain, adding their own wires and synapses. —JOHN YAU

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602352780
Publisher:	Parlor Press, LLC
Publication date:	12/15/2011
Series:	Free Verse Editions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	82
File size:	910 KB

About the Author

AMES CAPOZZI was born in West Milford, New Jersey. He attended The College of New Jersey and The University of Texas at Austin, where he was a founding editor of Bat City Review and the recipient of a James A. Michener Fellowship. COUNTRY ALBUM is the winner of the 2010 NEW MEASURE POETRY PRIZE.