Sidebend World

By: Charles Harper Webb

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Paperback | 16 October 2018

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With eleven full-length books and a spate of major prizes, Charles Harper Webb-once a well-kept secret in the poetry underground-has gained national recognition as a writer of poems that are complex yet reader-friendly. Sidebend World shows clearly why Webb has been called one of the most inventive, incisive, and psychologically astute poets writing in the U.S.A. today, as well as one of the most entertaining.

Webb is celebrated for his use of humor; yet even his funniest poems rise, as the best humor must, from serious concerns. Powered by an uncompromising but compassionate intelligence and an abiding wonder at the beautiful strangeness of the world, Sidebend World explores with clarity and vividness a wide range of emotions-love to hate, tenderness to brutality; yet, above all, Webb is a poet of praise. Metaphors of startling aptness and originality, a distinctive voice at once provocative and endearing, high musicality, propulsive energy, wild imaginative leaps, as well as mastery of diction from lyricism to street-speak, create a reading experience of the first order. These poems go down easy, but pack a wallop. As Robert Frost said poetry should do, Sidebend World "begins in delight and ends in wisdom."

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Like the work in his wonderful anthology, Stand Up Poetry, Charles Harper Webb's glorious new collection, Sidebend World, features poems that indeed do 'stand up, ' providing a welcome comedy and stability at a time when the only heroes may be sandwiches, when fathers dread a future of clowndom in their young son's eyes, when fear and fatigue are our constant companions. Equal parts wisdom and whimsy, Webb's 'stand up' poems are constantly doing side bends that tilt the cosmos dangerously, exhilaratingly, off-kilter, then--lovingly, affirmatively--set the world right again.-- "Ronald Wallace"

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