Modulations: Poems

Review "It's not often there's a poet so simply a pleasure and so secure in what he has to offer. Martin knows what he's doing and has that dependable virtue." -- Robert Creeley"[Martin] is the chronicler of the empty dynamism of this culture, but he knows its joys too. In the fast paced world of his verse there beats a fierce and oddly tonic heart." -- Andrei CodrescuAbandonment Acceleration Airport Poem All Is Misunderstanding Balmy Lips The Bartender In 1968 Blackjack Certain Betrayals Clutter Cold Feet Come Home Contact High Customary Strangers The Difference Between Used Cars And Language Disc Full Samsara Domestic Dispute Edvard Munch, Edvard Munch Elect Me Evening Sky Fast Cars File Cabinets Fluke Of Insolvency For Beer For Two, Please Form Fragments Of Glance And Odor Good Words Greenhorns Ideas In This Corner Inside Into The Yellow Darkness Landscape Of Fine Wine Listening To The Radio A Man In Dublin Modulations Nanosermon Next Sound On The Border Of A Chill Out There Paradise Participation Personal Truth Poem Plastic Flowers Poets Addicted To Moths Pop Culture Preachers Projection Proper Ventilation Quandaries Rainburn Rocks & Tubas Rubric The Sacristy Of Desire Sadness Competition Saints Without Photo Id's Synthetic Skyline This Hand Wake-up Call What I Am Who's There -- Table of Poems from Poem Finder® Product Description Full of the energy readers and listeners have come to expect from Richard Martin, the leaping, compassionate, and incisive poems in Modulations will appeal to a wide range of readers. From the Back Cover About the Author Richard Martin is the author of Dream of Long Headdresses: Poems From a Thousand Hospitals, White Man Appears on Southern California Beach, and Negation of Beautiful Words. His poems have appeared in the anthologies: Aloud: voices From the Nuyorican Poets CafE and American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century and the magazines: Fell Swoop, ACM, unarmed, Lungfull, and Skanky Possum. Awards for his poetry include an NEA fellowship. He lives in Boston.