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Books Books Books Dec 20, 2005
"Vincent Quatroche's collection of poems and stories are artfully rendered, bitter-sweet and at times disturbing. The works included in this collection are involving presentations that resurrect poignant images of human experience. Working in the context of the post modern world, Quatroche's works range from the sentimental and melancholic treatments of love and relationships, to insightful portrayals of the everyday, to critical parodies of the techno-consumer society. Although inspired by personal experience and reflections, they touch on common sentiments, human universals and shared dilemmas from the inside of human existence. This collection is an examination of common life, the taken for granted, the hidden and repressed contradictions of our experience. At times, in some poems and passages, the text reads like Thomas Hart Bennett's paintings look. This collection emanates an aura of our beginnings in oral discourse, before the written word when time was slower. In order to appreciate the emotional terrain of this collection one must surrender to the ordinary world, not unlike listening to neighbor's story, sharing in personal and private, covering social and psychological terrain. It poses opportunities for sorrow and celebration, agreement and difference, laughter and compassion. A certain quality of intangibility reverberates like an echo in the reader’s consciousness. There are some intensely original images rendered here that communicate something distinctly human in an increasing impersonal world." - Dr. Joseph Chilberg Associate Professor of Communication SUNY - Fredonia NY When Vincent Quatroche’s voice begins to scratch the groove, you realize you’ve had an itch you didn’t know about. Maybe you would rather not know that itch; but Vincent does not care. Either way he’s going to keep doing what he’s been doing these past couple decades --putting down the best writing in the United States, unassuming, cutting, hilarious. Real poems from a real poet. - Bob Holman Nuyorican Poet NYC Quatroche is primarily an oral poet, influenced by and working in the tradition of Whitman, Sandburg, Ginseberg, Ferlinghetti, Ken Nordine, Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski and similar experimenters in the American oral tradition. His work expresses a strong element of social criticism--sometimes angry, sometimes ironic or absurd, with the element of the highly personal and lyrical. One of his greatest strengths is the effective use of telling details and powerful images and metaphors to bring us face to face with our foibles, our failures and our loves. - David Lunde. Internationally published and recognized poet/translator. 1992 Rhysling Award recipient Five time Nebula Award nominee Director of Creative Writing Program State University of New York @ Fredonia (Windows Media Player, hi-speed connection) |
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