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    There’S a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory: If You Want Your Heart Broken, Read Somebody Else
    There’S a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory: If You Want Your Heart Broken, Read Somebody Else
    There’S a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory: If You Want Your Heart Broken, Read Somebody Else
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    There’S a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory: If You Want Your Heart Broken, Read Somebody Else

    By John T. Langfeld

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    With the desire of making others feel, think, and smile, author John Langfeld shares a diverse collection of aurally and visually unique poetry written over the course of more than thirty years of working with language as a technology.

    Influenced by the ideas, themes, and poetic devices that have tested both him and his students over the years, Langfeld offers poems that explore relationships, induce laughter, illustrate brevity, and present his unique voice. From a voyeurs prize to the hidden persuaders in our society, Langfeld takes others on an entertaining lyrical ride through humility, political confusion, and spell check hell as he contemplates modern life and all it encompasses.

    Theres a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory shares a compelling collection of verse that offers an unforgettable glimpse into one mans views about the world.

    This is not Donne or Keats or even Whitman or Frost. This is poetry for the 21st century; poetry that looks into issues and topics and ideas and events and lays them bare to scrutiny and perceptive language. Just as quickly it turns on its heel and offers up selections that are there just to play with words or ideas or words-and-ideas. Some of the offerings are deceptively short and others are cloaked in language specificity that demand more than just a casual reading. At times, Langfeld captures a situation so precisely that you want him to offer a solution or at least a rallying cry for action. But his appears to be the job of pricking the minds and consciences of others and, hopefully, moving them to more than an armchair response. These are words to be savored; not an anthology to be rushed thru.

    ---Amazon Review from a verified purchaser (May 18, 2014)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisheriUniverse
    Release dateMar 20, 2014
    ISBN9781491722770
    There’S a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory: If You Want Your Heart Broken, Read Somebody Else
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    John T. Langfeld

    John T. Langfeld is a retired musician and arts educator. His poetry is influenced by his formal studies of music, philosophy, and social history, as well as his love of the sound and technology of language. He currently lives in Westchester, Illinois.

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      There’S a Brevitist Loose in the Condensory - John T. Langfeld

      Copyright © 2014 John T. Langfeld.

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      ISBN: 978-1-4917-2278-7 (sc)

      ISBN: 978-1-4917-2277-0 (e)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2014903426

      iUniverse rev. date: 03/19/2014

      Contents

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Part 1

      Articulating the Madness

      The Voyeur

      Arrested Myth

      Art Snarls

      Articulating the Madness

      Boxes of Soap

      Merry Christmas

      Disco Guilt

      Drafting

      Peon

      Enjoying Sin Comes Later

      Fate’s Cold Hand

      Gag

      Relevance

      Fear and Loathing, Part 1

      Fear and Loathing, Part 2

      Pray, Tell Me

      Prophecy

      Sisyphus

      This Dilemma Has Horns

      Surely You Jest

      Sylvia

      Texting Adam

      The Dissonance Trick

      The Eye Didn’t See It

      The First Clue

      The Gay Critic

      Empty Glasses

      Can Ye Not Spell Salieri?

      Working Hard to Make Rain Pretty

      Fleecing Mary

      Bravado

      The Mad Hatter Was Alice

      Part 2

      The Brevitist in the Condensory

      A Pen in the Forest

      Humility

      Living within Without

      Holy Cow

      Righteous Indignation

      Keep the Change

      Clever Sun, Clever Moon

      Beware of Pretty Things

      An Old, Old Soul

      The Unfolding

      Empty Rhetoric

      Admit It …

      A Bromide for Life’s Teeth

      Editor Heaven

      The Last Laugh

      Gimme My Meds

      Logic and Art

      The Conjugation

      Psalm 151

      Psalm 152

      The Trick

      Solve for X

      A Line in the Sand

      Unrandomly

      Courage Is a Subtle Bitch

      The Penultimate Snub

      Implications

      Stickerbumped

      Francophilean Invective

      Ye Cannot Break a Heart with Mirth

      Vogue

      If a Digit Falls in the Forest

      Misappropriation

      Spell Check Hell

      Facebook

      In Effable Means

      You Know Who and What You Are

      Found in

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