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Through their cinematic storytelling, the poems in John Philip Drurys The Tellers Cage swell the heart and the imagination. The book opens with baseball and culminates with persona poems starring the poets mother, along the way unraveling factual and fantastical chronicles in enchanting locales. Drurys formal prowess is on display throughout this versified blockbuster. n PRAISE FOR THE TELLERS CAGE: n In John Philip Drurys The Tellers Cage, in a richly textured tableau in the vein of the late Richard Howards work, the speaker first reflects upon his younger life only to then, astonishingly, assume the perspective of his mother in a series of masterful persona poems. But most of all, one appreciates the ingeniously formal thrills of these very personal and alive poems. Drurys latest collection presents a uniquely visceral dream of recollection, into which you, dear reader, have been offered the gift of entrance. -Cate Marvin, author of Event Horizon n Were still chameleons who cant help changing, writes John Philip Drury in this new collection that rings the changes on American speech and classical verse forms. Park, Echo, dark, deco: Drury masters the mysteries of rhyme with vernacular charm, both hard rhyme and-legion, moody, curmudgeon, embody-slant. He is also adept at incorporating history into his poems-close to home and further afield. It all fits naturally, thanks to his flexible style and broad-minded curiosity. Yet we sense the presiding spirit of the collection in his tender, deeply lived and felt poems of love and friendship. Drurys formal restlessness, his skill at poetic shapeshifting, offers us a lexicon of things that morph, moving, in the final poem of each section, from poetry to cinematography as he scripts imaginary films for the theater of the mind. -Amit Majmudar, author of Twin A n Imaginary movies, as John Philip Drury calls the poems in The Tellers Cage, just might be the best movies, at least in the hands of such a formally virtuosic auteur. With historical reach that takes in the brutality of seventeenth-century colonialism, the poets mothers closeted love in the mid-twentieth century, and the devastating consequences of history in contemporary Venice, and with characters from a renaissance composer to John Waters, Drurys poems explore the imagination as our most essential way of facing facts. They defeat the easiness of nostalgia by insisting on the complexity of circumstances, as if the baroque
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