Poetry by Dick Gallup
February 1, 2001 • 7 x 10 • 176 pages • 978-1-56689-106-6
This new and selected volume by a contemporary of Ted Berrigan, Ron Padgett, and Joe Brainard “implies that everything is ordinary, and everything is extraordinary.”
Simultaneously elegant and goofy, the poems in Shiny Pencils at the Edge of Things depict the quiet moments of life with both sophisticated wit and a child’s sense of wonder. Gallup’s poems often begin with household objects, or a walk down the street, but his lines leap across continents and ideas with ease.
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