Past Present Imperfect, Poems by William Ford
In
three main parts, Past Present Imperfect, William FordÍs second book
of poems, offers narrative and lyric variations on the theme of gainful loss.
Part One, "Stop Time," a term describing moments of suspended music in which
a soloist may play, confronts physical and emotional breaking. Part Two, "Past
Present Imperfect," shows the interplay between past and present experience,
first autobiographically then culturally„with special reference to jazz. Finally,
"Odds on Tomorrow" yokes the personal with the social to a conclusion still
in the making (the meaning of the imperfect tense in grammar), as amplified
by its coda-like prose and poem sequence "The On the Road Rerun."
William Ford is the author of The Graveyard Picnic (Mid-American Press, 2002), winner of that press’s 2001 Writing Award. His poems have appeared in such journals as Brilliant Corners, Flyway, The Iowa Review, New Letters, Poetry, Southern Humanities Review, and in two anthologies: Voices on the Landscape (Loess Hills Press, 1996) and The Second Set (Indiana University Press, 1996).
ISBN 1933456418, 80 pages, $17.00
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