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.
