Romantic and full of wistful humor, the poetry of Jéanpaul Ferro seduces through its humanity and humility. Here are poems dealing with break-ups, city life and disappointments; relevant and vibrant, they speak to the heart and mind. True to its name, Jazz has an improvised quality, shifting from step to step with delightful unpredictability. So flip open, dip in and fall in love with poetry again.
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Jéanpaul Ferro's Jazz is full of this gut-wrenching diversity that moves us through a realm of heartbreaking worlds full of longing and contradiction. It is high art. It is modern life. It is the very world that we all see around us. As a whole, Jazz is a time capsule for the past ten years of American life. --Rachel Lancaster, Rattle Magazine
Jéanpaul Ferro's poems welcome you in and pour you a glass of the good stuff, with sinuous music in the background and dark wind in the trees outside to make you want to stay. ----Tom Chandler, Providence Journal
Jéanpaul Ferro's poems welcome you in and pour you a glass of the good stuff, with sinuous music in the background and dark wind in the trees outside to make you want to stay. ----Tom Chandler, Providence Journal
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Jeanpaul Ferro is a novelist, short fiction author, poet and photographer from Providence, Rhode Island. An 8-time Pushcart Prize nominee, his work has appeared on National Public Radio, Contemporary American Voices, Columbia Review, Emerson Review, Connecticut Review, Sierra Nevada Review, Portland Monthly, The Providence Journal, Arts and Understanding Magazine and many others. He is the author of All The Good Promises (Plowman Press, 1994), Becoming X (BlazeVox Books, 2008), You Know Too Much About Flying Saucers (Thumbscrew Press, 2009), Hemispheres (Maverick Duck Press, 2009) and Essendo Morti-Being Dead (Goldfish Press, 2009), which was nominated for the 2010 Griffin Prize in Poetry. He is represented by the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency. He currently lives along the south coast of southern Rhode Island.
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By S. Donaldson
Format:Paperback
The first poem about the displacement of the ego, lost among the resident souls on a University campus, learning to make oneself heard, sets the scene for a dark, sometimes distressing, but always thoughtful collection.
The majority of Jeanpaul Ferro's poems speak of love, life, death, war, futility and living in a disconnected state. There is a feeling of experience that few really understand but more people go through than are considered. We hear the voices of people who's homes are destroyed by war, who's eyes are tortured by their surroundings as they try to rebuild their lives, who have loved and lost and who are seeking romance still. Searching for what is lost and yearning for the past, however imperfect, is a major theme of these poems as is the irony of the American Dream and how reality is rarely that co-operative. Sometimes dark, but always inescapably human, these are musings on the past and how the future often fails to deliver.
Gritty, realistic but sometimes disconnected (yes, with a jazz-like quality), this is a collection from a new independent publisher that is well worth reading.
The majority of Jeanpaul Ferro's poems speak of love, life, death, war, futility and living in a disconnected state. There is a feeling of experience that few really understand but more people go through than are considered. We hear the voices of people who's homes are destroyed by war, who's eyes are tortured by their surroundings as they try to rebuild their lives, who have loved and lost and who are seeking romance still. Searching for what is lost and yearning for the past, however imperfect, is a major theme of these poems as is the irony of the American Dream and how reality is rarely that co-operative. Sometimes dark, but always inescapably human, these are musings on the past and how the future often fails to deliver.
Gritty, realistic but sometimes disconnected (yes, with a jazz-like quality), this is a collection from a new independent publisher that is well worth reading.
By Jay Doubleu
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Jazz contains poems of life and death, hope and despair. A fascinating combination of literary and speculative themes (not that they need necessarily be different), this collection delves elegantly into the pain and joy of Twenty-First Century American life.
This is another worthy collection from the award winning pen of Jeanpaul Ferro that you really ought to check out.
This is another worthy collection from the award winning pen of Jeanpaul Ferro that you really ought to check out.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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What made Jeanpaul Ferro's work stand out for me was the modesty. That's right. Modesty. It's very rare to find a poet whose intentions aren't to bewilder/confuse/throw you a poetic bone. One of the reasons people don't read poetry is because it has a reputation as being pretentious, untouchable, a special interest group read only. What Jeanpaul Ferro does in Jazz is tackle subjects that matter. War, love, loneliness, city life.
His language is beautifully understated, like a friend he guides you through his visions with tender care. And not once does he patronise or irritate with over usage of the thesaurus. To my mind, this fine collection is what poetry should be all about.
His language is beautifully understated, like a friend he guides you through his visions with tender care. And not once does he patronise or irritate with over usage of the thesaurus. To my mind, this fine collection is what poetry should be all about.
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