Jack Butler’s Broken Hallelujah: New and Selected Poems is a celebration that refuses to explain away pain and trouble, or to oversell the very transcendence it seeks. Its poems are always musical, whether formal, improvisational, or written according to the music of speech itself.
Butler understands poetry more nearly as the essence of that speech than as one of its products, the heart of the ways we know each other. Some of these forms are as old as English, but the voice stays immediate; and whether dark or hopeful, comic or sober, passionate or calm and knowing, these poems speak with the urgency of praise itself.
- ISBN13 9781933896960
- Publish Date 12 April 2013 (first published 1 March 2013)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Texas Review Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 80
- Language English