{"product_id":"composing-voices-a-cycle-of-dramatic-monologues-paperback","title":"Composing Voices: A Cycle of Dramatic Monologues - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRobert Pack\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert Pack's new volume of poetry, \u003ci\u003eComposing Voices: A Cycle of Dramatic Monologues\u003c\/i\u003e, is a fabulously expanded version of his 1984 book, \u003ci\u003eFaces in a Single Tree\u003c\/i\u003e. In each of the poems a single person is talking to one other person to whom he is intimately related, creating deep dramatic tension: a father talking to a bereaved daughter or puzzled son; a sister confronting a sister gone astray or a brother to whom she is confessing her compromised pregnancy; husband and wife; doctor and patient; lawyer and client. Combined with these human dramas are the dramas of nature. All possible human concerns are excavated in these poems: humans and God, humans and the environment, humans and their most significant others, including pet monkeys and ghosts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong \u003cb\u003eRobert Pack's\u003c\/b\u003e eighteen books of poetry, his most recent collections are: \u003ci\u003eElk in Winter\u003c\/i\u003e (2004), \u003ci\u003eRounding It Out\u003c\/i\u003e (1999), \u003ci\u003eMinding the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e (1996), and \u003ci\u003eFathering the Map: New and Selected Later Poems\u003c\/i\u003e (1993), all published by the University of Chicago Press. Pack's poetry focuses on such major themes as man's relationship to nature, and human intimacy-friendships and family relationships. His most recent book of criticism, \u003ci\u003eBelief and Uncertainty in the Poetry of Robert Frost\u003c\/i\u003e, was published in 1993 by the New England University Press, a study of Frost in the tradition of nature poetry. Pack's earlier collections of essays, \u003ci\u003eThe Long View: Essays on the Discipline of Hope and Poetic Craft and Affirming Limits\u003c\/i\u003e were published by the University of Massachusetts Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8.39 x 5.74 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 08, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Montana Book Award (2005)\u003c\/div\u003e\n                ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":71808560627965,"sku":"9780976211402","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/TN0cZcrKUg9780976211402.webp?v=1793814690","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/composing-voices-a-cycle-of-dramatic-monologues-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}