Waifs and Strays (poetry collection)

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Waifs and Strays

Author| Micah Ballard
Language| English
Publisher| City Lights

Publication date

| September 2011
Pages| 100 pp
ISBN| 978-0-87286-544-0

Waifs and Strays is a book of poetry by Micah Ballard. The book was first published in 2011 by City Lights and is part of the City Lights Spotlight Series. Waifs and Strays was a finalist for the California Book Award.[1]

## Reception

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Reviewing the book, Jeffrey Cyphers Wright from The Brooklyn Rail stated that "highly stylized, fairly experimental, and original, the poems rely on sequential 'disruption' underpinned by a solidly smoldering focus. The thematic transference of significance becomes a mantra of sustenance amidst an arranged wilderness, 'It is all imagined, anchored by the word.'"[2] Publishers Weekly further acknowledged the poet's style: "Though raised in Baton Rouge, La., Ballard now seems energetically tied to San Francisco, since his offhand intensities, fiercely casual stance, quick free verse, and colloquial mysticism draw so frequently on two great sources of Bay Area poetics, the prophetic concentration of Robert Duncan and the extroversion of the beats."[3]

## References

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1. ^ "Finalists Announced for 81st Annual California Book Awards | Commonwealth Club". Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. Retrieved 2012-08-03.
2. ^ "RAPID TRANSIT Image Makers in Photography and Poetry". The Brooklyn Rail. 3 October 2011.
3. ^ "Fiction Book Review: Waifs and Strays by Micah Ballard. City Lights (Consortium, dist.), $13.95 trade paper (88p) ISBN 978-0-87286-544-0".

## External links

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* The Brooklyn Rail book review
* Publishers Weekly book review
* Scribd Excerpt
* Micah Ballard bio

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