{"id":48,"date":"2014-10-13T16:07:05","date_gmt":"2014-10-13T16:07:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petercovino.com\/WPtest\/?p=48"},"modified":"2017-03-30T20:44:34","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:44:34","slug":"mechanical-fireflies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/book\/mechanical-fireflies\/","title":{"rendered":"MECHANICAL FIREFLIES<\/em>, DOUG RAMSPECK"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Barrow Street 2010 Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mechanical Fireflies<\/em> is the perfect collision of James Wright’s anti-pastorals with Wallace Stevens’s meditations on the real.
\n\u2014Kathy Fagan<\/p>\n


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\nFor those whose eyes remain open, whose hearts are not afraid to come closer, let them come and be pierced, let them come and read and turn the pages and be beholden to a poet who seems born to mes- merize, having learned from The Great Mesmerizer \u2014 the moon itself \u2014 that we are all one person, no matter who we are or when we lived.”
\n\u2014Mary Ruefle<\/p>\n

Often, the narrators of these poems look over their moonlit landscapes, finding in them opportunities for profound, unpredictable meditations on sex, childhood, history, poetry, and violence. Inhabited by the ghost of Walt Whitman and imbued with the pleasures of nuanced observation, this is a richly imagina- tive, energetic poetry collection, one I will return to with pleasure.
\n\u2014Kevin Prufer<\/p>\n

Doug Ramspeck is the author of four poetry collections. His first book, Black Tupelo Country<\/em>, received the John Ciardi Prize. He teaches at The Ohio State University at Lima.<\/p>\n

Buy Mechanical Fireflies<\/em> (2011) online via our secure payment service, Paypal:
\nISBN: 9780981987644<\/strong><\/p>\n
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