The Standing Wave: Poems
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BookPal × TalezoThe Standing Wave
From coastal shallows to the heights of Manhattan, Gabriel Spera charts the fine margins between stillness and upheaval.
An exciting first collection of poetry from an emerging talent, Gabriel Spera’s The Standing Wave was a winner of the 2002 National Poetry Series Open Competition, selected by esteemed poet Dave Smith.
Spera marshals a wide array of verse forms across four numbered sections. The poems follow warehouse loaders pitching heavy freight in summer heat, boys nudging a tarantula on shed planks, and an aerialist stepping out between Manhattan towers.
On other pages, the collection confronts historical trauma, setting dramatic monologues and classical sonnets beside post-war fields. Spera records a surviving bricklayer escaping an execution site and forensic teams exhuming mass graves.
For over twenty years, the National Poetry Series has discovered many new and emerging voices and has been instrumental in launching the careers of poets and writers such as Billy Collins, Mark Doty, Denis Johnson, Cole Swensen, Thylias Moss, Mark Levine, and Dionisio Martinez.
- American Poetry: A wry speaker tallies an ex-husband’s rehearsed charms and displays the Murano glass champagne flutes won in their divorce settlement.
- Nature Poetry: From mosquito larvae curling in a wheelbarrow’s pooled rainwater to monarchs coating pine boughs in El Rosario, small creatures command fierce attention.
- Political Poetry: Searing accounts of contemporary upheaval interrogate violence and public spectacle, from suicide bombings to roadside snake shows staging danger for crowds.
- Contemporary Poetry: Intimate domestic rituals unfold in unexpected detail, including harvesting bitter Mission olives to cure in colanders of coarse sea salt.
The book, The Standing Wave: Poems [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780060541828 in Paperback by Gabriel Spera may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Author
- Gabriel Spera
- Format
- Paperback
- Published
- Jul 8, 2003
- ISBN-13
- 9780060541828
- ISBN-10
- 0060541822
- Pages
- 96
- Carton quantity
- 46 copies
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| 25 – 99 | $8.84 | 41% off list |
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| 500 – 999 | $7.64 | 49% off list |
| 1,000+ | $7.35 | 51% off list |
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