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We Bed Down into Water: Poems by John Rybicki (English) Hardcover Book

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Condition
Brand new: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
ISBN-13
9780810151871
Type
Does not apply
ISBN
9780810151871
Book Title
We Bed Down Into Water : Poems
Publisher
Northwestern University Press
Item Length
8.5 in
Publication Year
2008
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
0.5 in
Author
John Rybicki
Genre
Poetry
Topic
General, American / General
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Width
6.1 in
Number of Pages
96 Pages

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John Rybicki offers up an unafraid set of poems in this charged book of verse. "We Bed Down Into Water" is rich with imagery of family, love, illness, death, and, indeed, water, which seeps in throughout the pages: rivers, pools, rain, and tears. His moving stories, in both prose and verse, struggle to hang on to a vision of the world that can still allow benevolence, luck, and laughter. In this, the collection embodies a contradiction: it is a tender book of fury, a book of bleak hopefulness. Rybicki's work is steeped in challenge: the biological and spiritual challenge posed by his beloved's recurrent cancer or the daily challenges of an adopted child who could be, all too easily, lost. He spins these phenomenal struggles into a lyrical book that offers hope and awakens the reader into a new way of seeing.

Product Identifiers

Publisher
Northwestern University Press
ISBN-10
0810151871
ISBN-13
9780810151871
eBay Product ID (ePID)
60072301

Product Key Features

Book Title
We Bed Down Into Water : Poems
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Topic
General, American / General
Genre
Poetry
Author
John Rybicki
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"John Rybicki collects the ordinary elements of a work day, whether it's work at the tire shop or work at the desk 'cracking one sharp stone against a page until it sheds/the proper sparks . . .' These are the fruits of hard labor and love, a poet banging away until the beams are balanced, until life is balanced for one day against all the confusion and swirling called a life. It is love, after all, that begs this testimony, but it is devotion that allows it to flower into song." --Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of "The House on Mango Street" and "Caramelo", "John Rybicki has a hurricane heart, a hammer-heart, that is just waiting to unleash itself upon this perhaps undeserving world."  --Rick Bass, "I cannot, dare not, will not commit the crime of commenting on Rybicki's verses. All I might do is cry with him, yet lack the courage to venture a feeling anywhere within the infernal precinct of this man's authenticity. Song, song--he, Rybicki is singing." --Gordon Lish, "I cannot, dare not, will not commit the crime of commenting on Rybicki's verses.  All I might do is cry with him, yet lack the courage to venture a feeling anywhere within the infernal precinct of this man's authenticity.  Song, song--he, Rybicki is singing."  --Gordon Lish, "John Rybicki collects the ordinary elements of a work day, whether it's work at the tire shop or work at the desk 'cracking one sharp stone against a page until it sheds/the proper sparks . . .' These are the fruits of hard labor and love, a poet banging away until the beams are balanced, until life is balanced for one day against all the confusion and swirling called a life. It is love, after all, that begs this testimony, but it is devotion that allows it to flower into song." --Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, "John Rybicki has a hurricane heart, a hammer-heart, that is just waiting to unleash itself upon this perhaps undeserving world." --Rick Bass, "John Rybicki collects the ordinary elements of a work day, whether it's work at the tire shop or work at the desk 'cracking one sharp stone against a page until it sheds/the proper sparks . . .' These are the fruits of hard labor and love, a poet banging away until the beams are balanced, until life is balanced for one day against all the confusion and swirling called a life. It is love, after all, that begs this testimony, but it is devotion that allows it to flower into song."  --Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of The House on Mango Streetand Caramelo, "John Rybicki collects the ordinary elements of a work day, whether it's work at the tire shop or work at the desk 'cracking one sharp stone against a page until it sheds/the proper sparks . . .' These are the fruits of hard labor and love, a poet banging away until the beams are balanced, until life is balanced for one day against all the confusion and swirling called a life. It is love, after all, that begs this testimony, but it is devotion that allows it to flower into song."  --Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of The House on Mango Street and Caramelo
Lccn
2007-035884
Target Audience
Trade
LeafCats
378
Dewey Decimal
811.54
Lc Classification Number
Ps3568.Y3977w4 2008
Copyright Date
2008

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