Description
"Ted Pearson's new volume of poems, DURATIONS, is paralyzingly simple only until Pearson springs upon the reader what the poems are about, and what they are about doing. The poems seem to be about writing poetry, but really, they are about the fever, the fervor that breaks the paralysis, the seizure, the complacent holing up that has stricken these times of pandemic, political catastrophe, and racial reckoning. These poems, in their reclaiming bewilderedness, possibly start the new conscience on a path from paralyzed stasis toward healing."—Ed Roberson
Poetry.
Author Bio
Ted Pearson was born and raised in Palo Alto, California. He began writing poetry in 1964 and subsequently attended Vandercook College of Music, Foothill College, and San Francisco State. His first book, The Grit, appeared in 1976. He has since published twenty-six books of poetry, including EXTANT GLYPHS: 1964-1980 (Singing Horse Press, 2014), AN INTERMITTENT MUSIC (Chax Press, 2016) and his most recent, Set Pieces (2021). He also co-authored The Grand Piano (2006-2010), a ten-volume experiment in collective autobiography. He now lives in Houston, Texas.
Author City: OAKLAND, CA USA