{"product_id":"moving-to-neptune-new-selected","title":"Moving to Neptune: New \u0026 Selected","description":"\u003cp\u003eBraggs confronts us with a combination of hard realism and musical lyricism, painting unforgettable images in unforgettable language. This is American poetry at its finest: as spacious as Walt Whitman, as frank as the Beat Poets, and as alive with witness as the poetry of the Black Arts Movement. Braggs is a master storyteller, brings a wide range of characters and social circumstances to life on the page.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProphetic, American as the blues, Braggs' poems take the outrages of recent history into a vision where the heart and humor, irony and vulnerability enable poet and community to survive and sometimes sing. There is breathtaking bravery and edge to the voice here, Joycean stream of consciousness that refuses to be censored or subdued.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIf poetry is music, Earl S. Braggs is its composer — in smoky, sensual, serpentine stanzas of jazzy poetry at its improvisational best: staccato-trumpeting lines, tempo-driven voices, melodic repetitions pouring into the corners of our consciousness, ragtiming us into booty-shaking highs, and tenor-saxing us into deep, deep downs.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEARL S. BRAGGS\u003c\/strong\u003e, UC Foundation and Herman H. Battle Professor of English at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, is the author of \u003cem\u003eHat Dancer Blue\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the 1992 Anhinga Poetry Prize selected by Marvin Bell. He is the author of these books from Anhinga Press: \u003cem\u003eWalking back from Woodstock, House on Fontanka, Crossing Tecumseh Street, In Which Language Do I Keep Silent, Younger than Neil, Cruising Weather Wind Blue\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eSyntactical Arrangement of a Twisted Wind\u003c\/em\u003e. He also is the author of \u003cem\u003eBoy Named Boy [a Memoir]\u003c\/em\u003e (Wet Cement Press) and \u003cem\u003eObama's Children\u003c\/em\u003e (Madville Publishing).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"After Allyson,\" a chapter from his yet to be published novel, \u003cem\u003eLooking for Jack Kerouac\u003c\/em\u003e, won the 1995 Jack Kerouac Literary Prize. Other awards include Tennessee Arts Commission Individual Artist Grant and a Chattanooga Allied Arts Individual Artist Grant. Supported by Summer Fellowships from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, he has traveled and written in Russia, Ukraine, France and Spain. He is a native of Wilmington, North Carolina.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Jazz runs through \u003cem\u003eMoving to Neptune\u003c\/em\u003e like a fishing line through lily pads — you can't always see it, but it's there, dangling its smoky lure, enticing a reader's ears. You can feel it, sense it, your whole body vibrant and attuned to its riffs and runs. In the title poem, an open invitation to the reader to kick back and swing to the hot as pepper sprouts band, to revel in the sultry sounds of Rollins, Mingus, Roach, Monk — and Lester Young, who we are told is moving to Neptune.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eGeorge Drew\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Itasca Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54526361141523,"sku":"9781934695678","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0948\/3521\/2563\/files\/9781934695678ita.jpg?v=1785851639","url":"https:\/\/danuc.net\/products\/moving-to-neptune-new-selected","provider":"Danu's Wardrobe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}