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BLUES IN THE NIGHT by Herb Coursen; Moon Pie Press, Westbrook, Maine, 2010; 74 pages, trade paperback, $10
"Blues in the Night" offers more well-wrought, crystalline verse by H.R. Coursen, one of Maine's most capable lyric poets of the last few decades. His best works continue to be his sonnets, cast in heavily enjambed lines and disclosing all moods of Maine weather, personal recollections and political and social observations, with frequent disclosures of their literary ancestry ("Shall I compare thee to a winter storm?" the book playfully opens). The title, following a previous collection, "Blues in the Day," points to a series of poems in the latter part of the book recapturing old-time blues history and emotions in well-handled blues rhythms.See the full content of this document
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Herb Coursen, who teaches Shakespeare for Southern New Hampshire University and taught for many years at Bowdoin College, has won a number of prizes on academic and literary circuits. His recent books of verse in...
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