· Gabriel Gudding is the author of Rhode Island Notebook ( avg rating, 87 ratings, 12 reviews, published ), A Defense of Poetry ( avg rating, 9 /5. Not since On the Road has a book been more thoroughly of the road. Unlike Kerouac's novel, however, this book was literally written on the road in Gudding's own car, on pad and paper while driving. Rhode Island Notebook is the handwritten account of one driver's journey to happiness in the face of grief. This book-length poem chronicles the break-up of a family and the separation of a father. · Gudding, Gabriel. Rhode Island Notebook. Dalkey Archive. cp. ISBN pap. $ POETRY Once the source of national identity and possibility that inspired Walt Whitman and Jack Kerouac, the American road has become domesticated, even routine. But Gudding's latest book (after hisEstimated Reading Time: 6 mins.
"Rhode Island Notebook is a modern/postmodern epic as a poem-including-everything. An incredibly human/humane book at bottom, it is also Gudding's road of excess, as Blake once had it, leading him ( us) to the palace of wisdom."-- Jerome Rothenberg. Biography. Poet, essayist, and translator from Norwegian and Spanish, Gabriel Gudding is the current Coordinator of Creative Writing and author of the books Literature for Nonhumans (Ahsahta, ), Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, ) and A Defense of Poetry (Pitt, ), as well as numerous chapbooks. Gabriel Gudding is the author of Rhode Island Notebook (Dalkey Archive Press, ) and A Defense of Poetry (Pitt, ). His essays and poems appear in such periodicals as Harper's Magazine, The Nation, and Journal of the History of Ideas, in such anthologies as Great American Prose Poems, Best American Poetry, and Now: Best Innovative Writing.
Not since On the Road has a book been more thoroughly of the road. Unlike Kerouac's novel, however, this book was literally written on the road in Gudding's own car, on pad and paper while driving. Rhode Island Notebook is the handwritten account of one driver's journey to happiness in the face of grief. In the end The Rhode Island Notebook matters because it has redefined the journey, maleness and detail in a way that other great works of this type have. Gudding has taken eternal archetype's and overlayed them with fine language and innovative transitions to bring us a great book and one that needs to be read for the important work that it is. Rhode Island Notebook by Gabriel Gudding. Click here for the lowest price! Paperback, ,
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