{"id":56,"date":"2014-10-09T16:08:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-09T16:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/petercovino.com\/WPtest\/?p=56"},"modified":"2017-03-30T20:30:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T20:30:55","slug":"black-leapt-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barrowstreet.org\/press\/book\/black-leapt-in\/","title":{"rendered":"BLACK LEAPT IN<\/em>, CHRIS FORHAN"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Barrow Street 2008 Prize Winner<\/strong><\/p>\n

Open Black Leapt In<\/em> to any poem for the thrill of finding a poet of eerie energy breaking new ground. These pages are full of unexpected images, passionate energy, and entirely new ways of making the homely, heartbreaking world as beautiful and odd as it deserves to be. The lines and their grief-stricken cadences invent a new music for the American experience. \u201cImprobable: our toes and shoes, the tongues and laces \u2026\u201d of \u201cFourth Grade Science.\u201d \u201cThat billowy thing in flames back there?\/That\u2019s not my circus tent. Never seen it.\u201d I have been reading Chris Forhan’s poetry with pleasure for many years, but this new book kept me up late with its tricks and terrors as no recent collection has, thank God, for a long, long time.
\n\u2014Laura Kasischke<\/p>\n


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\nThese poems have in them something of Theodore Roethke\u2019s excitement at being alive in the physical world\u2014how much there is to see!\u2014as well as Roethke\u2019s certainty of the darkness threaded all through that world. Yet they remain wholly Chris Forhan\u2019s poems\u2014brooding and exuberant, tender and amazed. \u201cThe heart gets sad, you slap it,\u201d he writes. Fiercely observant, richly inventive, and sometimes very funny, Black Leapt In<\/em> is a terrific book.
\n\u2014Lawrence Raab<\/p>\n

Barrow Street Press is pleased to announce Chris Forhan’s book Black Leapt In has been named a finalist in the 2010 Indiana State Book Competition. Congratulations to Chris! Click here for details.<\/a><\/p>\n

Buy Black Leapt In<\/em> (2009) online via our secure payment service, Paypal:
\nISBN: 9780981987606<\/strong><\/p>\n
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