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Balabans emotional range is impressively wide and deeply humanby turns compassionate and angry, somber and humorous, earnest and ironic. His voice is strong; his poems are important. Harvard Review Guided by an acute moral urgency, Path, Crooked Path opens on Highway 61 and keeps moving across America and throughout the world. Juxtaposing his experiences in eastern Europe and southeast Asia against contemporary life in the United States, Balaban illuminates the humor and hypocrisy that often percolates when individuals are thrust into the mix of cultures. Whether driving past Bushs Texas ranch, sitting at a caf in Vietnam, or trading swigs of vodka with a Bulgarian exile, his poems look beyond the personal to help make sense of an often chaotic world. From The Great Fugue ...I am playing The Grosse Fugue, hearing the faded voices of those good people who did not want to see me falter, but took me in, schooling me in an intertwining of spirits that like music can fill a room, that is a great fugue weaving through us and joining generations in charged, exquisite music that we long to hear. John Balaban is the author of a dozen books of poetry, prose, and Vietnamese translations whose

Author

John Balaban

Publisher

Copper Canyon Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9781556592386

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities