Overview

Balance Act is Ken Cormier's first published collection of prose and poetry. Ranging in mood from all-out hilarity to heart-stopping melancholy, Balance Act utilizes a consistent thread of music and rhythm to propel its language. Cormier's extensive background in percussion informs his writing at every level of the process. Simply put, Cormier brings performance to the page, and Balance Act is his one-man variety show. Cormier's stories peel back the layers of a bent suburban landscape, and his characters scratch and claw to find inspiration on the railroad tracks, to bear the absurdity of family dysfunction, to trade the bitterness of complacency for the thrill of total annihilation. The poems reinforce his over-arching themes, punctuating the text like rapid-fire epiphanies.

ISBN-13

9781895837674

ISBN-10

1895837677

Weight

0.30 Pounds

Dimensions

5.25 x 0.50 x 8.00 In

List Price

$9.99

Format

Paperback

Language

English

Pages

104 pages

Publisher

Insomniac Pr

Published On

2000-03-25



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