{"id":34,"date":"2014-10-20T16:05:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-20T16:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petercovino.com\/WPtest\/?p=34"},"modified":"2017-03-30T21:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T21:03:52","slug":"unions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/book\/unions\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>UNIONS<\/em>, ALFRED CORN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/book\/unions\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vertical-align:text-top alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/unionslarge.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>He has had the skill and courage to confront, absorb, and renew our poetic tradition at its most vital.<br \/>\n\u2014Harold Bloom<\/p>\n<p>Few poets could sustain, as Corn does, both the fiery voluptuousness of the abstract oracular passages, and the broken simplicity of the late 20th-century voice, tentative, self-conscious, unheroic.<br \/>\n\u2014Wayne Koestenbaum<\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"M3G5CKPVFBZEN\" \/><input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_buynow_SM.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none ! important;\" hidden=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/scr\/pixel.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/form>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nSeeing the very fact of mobility and diversity as an epic theme, he brings to it a discerning eye and ear, a marvelous memory for detail, and above all an exhilarating range of sympathy.<br \/>\n\u2014Amy Clampitt<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;to arm each other&#8217;s to strike \/ up the band our golden pledge&#8221; <a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1GqWX8p\" data-text=\"&quot;to arm each other's to strike \/ up the band our golden pledge&quot; #AlfredCorn #Unions\" data-count=\"none\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How brief it is, that fiery burst of thunder!&#8221; <a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-url=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/1GqWX8p\" data-text=\"&quot;How brief it is, that fiery burst of thunder!&quot; #AlfredCorn #Unions\" data-count=\"none\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><br \/>\n<strong>Unions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Streaming tears hitched teamsters<br \/>\njogging the wheel of progress<br \/>\nin unison or close harmony<br \/>\nwhile bells peal and call us<br \/>\nto arms each other\u2019s to strike<br \/>\nup the band our golden pledge<br \/>\nout of one plus one many<br \/>\nnew states of fellow feeling<br \/>\nconstituting a more perfect union<br \/>\nthat crowns us as one flash<br \/>\nof insight with improved working<br \/>\nconditions for love a nonnegotiable<br \/>\nbond united we stand<br \/>\nshoulder to shoulder against<br \/>\nisolation when industry<br \/>\ntwines separate fibers<br \/>\nof reflection and passion<br \/>\nfor you K. and for us this<br \/>\nembodies a double entendre<br \/>\na workingman\u2019s pastoral<br \/>\nit\u2019s all one under the greenwood tree<\/p>\n<p><code><\/code><br \/>\n<strong>Buy <em>Unions<\/em> (2014) online via our secure payment service, Paypal:<br \/>\nISBN: 9780989329613<\/strong><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><input name=\"hosted_button_id\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"M3G5CKPVFBZEN\" \/><input alt=\"PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online!\" name=\"submit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.paypalobjects.com\/en_US\/i\/btn\/btn_buynow_SM.gif\" type=\"image\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"display: none ! 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