Rippling Rhymes
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Everyday work, public opinion and small irritations supply Walt Mason with material for short prose poems that carry a steady rhyme beneath their paragraph form. Farm machinery becomes a joke about the stubborn business of feeding calves, while an editor's influence prompts a comic argument about the responsibility of writers. Other pieces turn to sport, familiar songs, friendship and the pride of Kansas.
Mason's speakers often expose themselves through their complaints. A discouraged job seeker describes the hours he spends waiting around, and visitors burden a newspaper editor with grievances, theories and stale stories. Alongside these comic portraits, a poem contrasts celebrated physical strength with the quiet endurance of a man supporting his mother.
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Book facts
- Author
- Walt Mason
- Reading time
- About 100 minutes
- Pages
- 74
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Poetry
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