Public Poems
Ebook
Public Poems revisits American history in view of present-day events and personalities. From the Gold Rush and Mexican Cession to the Civil War, Sitting Bull, the Great Depression, and World War II; and from Elvis, Superman, and Ricky Nelson to Pine Ridge, the New York Yankees, the Vietnam War, Robert Kennedy, the moon landing, and today's politics, these religious and secular snapshots of our past and present give us mirror images of ourselves.
“Currently, many publications bristle with a didactic public poetry that, though well-intentioned, is flawed by parochial righteousness. Kent Gramm’s public voice which regularly employs rhyming couplets or blank verse with an unabashed old school earnestness remains untainted by preachiness. I admire the genuine democracy found in Gramm’s public poems whose subjects range widely from the topical to the historical to the poignantly elegiac, resonating with biting Swiftian wit, pure humor, and Frostian wisdom. This fulsome collection is quite smart and much fun.”
—William Hathaway, author of Dawn Chorus: New & Selected Poems, 1972–2017
- Title: Public Poems
- Author: Kent Gramm
- Publisher: Resource Publications
- Print Publication Date: 2022
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781666759563, 9781666759556, 1666759554, 9781666759549, 1666759546, 1666759562
- Resource ID: LLS:9781666759563
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-06-06T20:33:05Z
Kent Gramm is the author of November: Lincoln’s Elegy at Gettysburg; Somebody’s Darling; Gettysburg: A Meditation on War and Values; and The Prayer of Jesus; the novels Bitterroot: An American Epic; Cars: A Romantic Manifesto; and Clare; and three books of poetry. He is co-author with photographer Chris Heisey of Gettysburg: The Living and the Dead. A winner of the Hart Crane Memorial Poetry Prize, he teaches at Gettysburg College.