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Credits

Writer: Quincy Troupe; Genres: Fiction, Poetry; Publisher: Coffee House Press
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In The Architecture of Language, Quincy Trope offers vivid verse salutes to his mom, Richard Pryor, and Tiger Woods; shrewd poems about writing poetry.

Sample Verse
''poets constructing lines sometimes switch & drop/from proper to colloquial...''

Lowdown
Troupe's deft swings between high diction and casual speech connect him to Walt Whitman, the Beats, and jazz.


 

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