{"product_id":"visiting-hours-at-the-color-line-paperback","title":"Visiting Hours at the Color Line - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEd Pavlic\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eDan Beachy-Quick\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eDan Beachy-Quick\u003c\/b\u003e (Notes by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"I am incapable of succinctly praising this poet's immense talent.\" --TERRANCE HAYES\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOften the most recognized, even brutal, events in American history are segregated by a politicized, racially divided \"Color Line.\" But how do we privately experience the most troubling features of American civilization? Where is the Color Line in the mind, in the body, between bodies, between human beings?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSelected for the National Poetry Series by Dan Beachy-Quick, Ed Pavlic's \u003cem\u003eVisiting Hours at the Color Line \u003c\/em\u003eattempts to complicate this black and white, straight-line feature of our collective imagination, and to map its nonlinear, deeply colored timbres and hues. From daring prose poems to powerful free verse, Pavlic's lines are musically infused, bearing tones of soul, R \u0026amp; B, and jazz. They link the influence of James Baldwin with a postmodern consciousness descended from Samuel Beckett, tracking the experiences of American characters through situations both mundane and momentous. The resulting poems are intense, ambitious, and psychological, making \u003cem\u003eVisiting Hours at the Color Line \u003c\/em\u003ea poetic tour de force.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eVisiting Hours at the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These remarkable poems are in conversation with us: our culture, our history, our ghosts. Even after enraptured multiple readings, I am incapable of succinctly praising this poet's immense talent and this new book's urgent, beautiful complexities.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eTerrance Hayes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"To fully enjoy the sweet complexity and gravity-defying genre blending in \u003ci\u003eVisiting Hours at the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e, one has to first put aside fears of postmodern tricksterism and fake-outs, then come to believe that 'talk' happens without words. Inside Ed Pavlic's staunch, idiomatic phrasings and syntactic figurations is a heart bursting with sharp observations and a desire to read the nonverbal signs that point to and record our supreme humanity.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMajor Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ever since I discovered Ed Pavlic's poetry, I find myself measuring other authors against the steady stream of his voice, and the heart and politics one finds in his short and long lines--the very sound of freedom.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eHilton Als \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These poems don't prove, but play within the fundamental suspicion that ethics and erotics are one. It is a tune we need to hear: one that lulls where sleep rightly beckons, and one that wakes as exactly where it is we must be awake.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eDan Beachy-Quick \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Ed Pavlic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ed Pavlic's poems are rituals for awareness. A stunning contribution to international literature.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eNathalie Handal\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There's a beauty embodied in this poet's straightforward journey.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ed Pavlic's poetry balances itself on a tightrope of musical strings strung across a precipice between the irrational and the rational. The body of his work is a kind of musical instrument: horn-guitar-percussion-words. Like jazz he wants to be without notaion, but he is a poet, stuck with language, various cultures that have caught his attention. And reading him is a theatrical experience.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eStanley Moss\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The tension in Ed Pavlic's poems is a language-cable wrought to swing you out over unnerving spaces, let you see and hear what they really hold, and bring you back up more alive than you were before. Dialogic, dangerous, this is a poetics of body and soul, music to listen to with all five senses.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eAdrienne Rich\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEd Pavlic\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five previous books, including \u003ci\u003eWinners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParaph of Bone \u0026amp; Other Kinds of Blue.\u003c\/i\u003e His awards include \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\/Honickman First Book Prize, among others. In 2012, he was a fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute. Pavlic teaches at the Universiy of Georgia and lives in Athens.\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eVisiting Hours at the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These remarkable poems are in conversation with us: our culture, our history, our ghosts. Even after enraptured multiple readings, I am incapable of succinctly praising this poet's immense talent and this new book's urgent, beautiful complexities.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eTerrance Hayes\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"To fully enjoy the sweet complexity and gravity-defying genre blending in \u003ci\u003eVisiting Hours at the Color Line\u003c\/i\u003e, one has to first put aside fears of postmodern tricksterism and fake-outs, then come to believe that 'talk' happens without words. Inside Ed Pavlic's staunch, idiomatic phrasings and syntactic figurations is a heart bursting with sharp observations and a desire to read the nonverbal signs that point to and record our supreme humanity.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eMajor Jackson\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ever since I discovered Ed Pavlic's poetry, I find myself measuring other authors against the steady stream of his voice, and the heart and politics one finds in his short and long lines--the very sound of freedom.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eHilton Als \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"These poems don't prove, but play within the fundamental suspicion that ethics and erotics are one. It is a tune we need to hear: one that lulls where sleep rightly beckons, and one that wakes as exactly where it is we must be awake.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eDan Beachy-Quick \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for Ed Pavlic\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEd Pavlic's poems are rituals for awareness. A stunning contribution to international literature.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eNathalie Handal\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere's a beauty embodied in this poet's straightforward journey.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eYusef Komunyakaa\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEd Pavlic's poetry balances itself on a tightrope of musical strings strung across a precipice between the irrational and the rational. The body of his work is a kind of musical instrument: horn-guitar-percussion-words. Like jazz he wants to be without notaion, but he is a poet, stuck with language, various cultures that have caught his attention. And reading him is a theatrical experience.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eStanley Moss\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe tension in Ed Pavlic's poems is a language-cable wrought to swing you out over unnerving spaces, let you see and hear what they really hold, and bring you back up more alive than you were before. Dialogic, dangerous, this is a poetics of body and soul, music to listen to with all five senses.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eAdrienne Rich\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eEd Pavlic\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five previous books, including \u003ci\u003eWinners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eParaph of Bone \u0026amp; Other Kinds of Blue.\u003c\/i\u003e His awards include \u003ci\u003eThe American Poetry Review\u003c\/i\u003e\/Honickman First Book Prize, among others. In 2012, he was a fellow at Harvard University's W.E.B. DuBois Institute. Pavlic teaches at the Universiy of Georgia and lives in Athens.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEd Pavlic\u003c\/b\u003e has been awarded the Honickman First Book Prize and is a National Poetry Series award winner, in addition to receiving fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony, Bread Loaf, and the W.E.B. DuBois Institute at Harvard University. He is the author of four previous collections of poems including, \u003ci\u003eWinners Have Yet to be Announced: A Song for Donny Hathaway\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in Athens, GA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 148\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 30, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771443151136,"sku":"9781571314604","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8b1d3cfab34a8cdb833ff7b4db851d6f.webp?v=1780386644","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/visiting-hours-at-the-color-line-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}