The Whole Song

SELECTED POEMS

Kenneth Warren author Fred Whitehead author Vincent Ferrini author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:University of Illinois Press

Published:5th May '04

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The Whole Song cover

Collected works of Vincent Ferrini, known as the people's poet of the 20thcentury.

Presents the collected works of Vincent Ferrini, known as the people's poet of the 20th century.With a voice emerging from class tensions, labor struggles, the Great Depression, and World War II, Vincent Ferrini lived as a people's poet crying out for an end to exploitation and organized greed. Radical Christian gnosis and the conviction that poetry should be more than a display of word-craft distinguished him from poets like T. S. Eliot, infusing his work with dynamic images of Christ as a fighter, a revolutionary, and a martyr in opposing the mighty for the sake of the poor.
 

"The range of these poems is surprising and generally delightful as well as descriptive of the many-sided life of an admirable man of the people who also has an intensely personal, even spiritual life. Ferrini is a poet of the heart who writes with great visceral power. Never sentimental or solipsistic, his poems finely transcend the personal to reach out to broad themes." -- Robert W. Lewis, editor of the North Dakota Quarterly "This long-overdue collection, aided by an insightful introduction, stands as a vital testament to a poet whose work is always fresh and interesting." -- John Crawford, director of the Honors Program of the University of New Mexico at Valencia and coeditor of This Is About Vision and Western Literature in a World Context

ISBN: 9780252029097

Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm

Weight: 513g

248 pages