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Using chant-rhythm beats to create layers of harmony and meaning, Simon weaves poetry from jazz, sex, and geography.
These poems uncover the music in the names of streets in San Francisco, in the controlled passion of jazz rhythms, and the mystery of female sexuality, using chant-rhythm beats to create diaphanous layers of harmony and meaning.
Collisions and Transformations reads like a wind chime. In the section, “Street Bleats,” poems influenced by Gertrude Stein take us on a language and sound journey down the streets of San Francisco. In the last section, “Alive,” fish heads, jay-walking, and postcards become vehicles for a confirmations of the poet’s commitment to change and transformation, to the ability of words to rise and stir. In poems that in turn sing loudly, and hum inwardly, Collisions and Transformations explores with an enchanting musical quality relationship to family, society and spirituality.
These poems uncover the music in the names of streets in San Francisco, in the controlled passion of jazz rhythms, and the mystery of female sexuality, using chant-rhythm beats to create diaphanous layers of harmony and meaning.
Collisions and Transformations reads like a wind chime. In the section, “Street Bleats,” poems influenced by Gertrude Stein take us on a language and sound journey down the streets of San Francisco. In the last section, “Alive,” fish heads, jay-walking, and postcards become vehicles for a confirmations of the poet’s commitment to change and transformation, to the ability of words to rise and stir. In poems that in turn sing loudly, and hum inwardly, Collisions and Transformations explores with an enchanting musical quality relationship to family, society and spirituality.
Price: $9.95
Pages: 96
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Imprint: Coffee House Press
Publication Date:
01 July 1991
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780918273932
Format: Paperback
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“Simon is full of solemn tenderness, an ordered pain, giving dignity to our transience. How often do a poet’s words sniggle and soothe, teach and proposition you to feel?” —Ntozake Shange
Leslie Simon grew up on the South Side of Chicago and came to the Bay Area in 1974. A year later, she founded Poetry for the People, a class and a publishing and performing collective at City College of San Francisco. She also founded and coordinated Project SURVIVE, the College’s award winning and nationally recognized sexual violence prevention education program. Simon taught for many years in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department and co-directs, with Ann Wettrich, Groundswell, an architectural literacy program that includes Museum Studies.