HEAVY LIFTING: Poems 1995 - 2006

"Amusingly outrageous..." LIGHT Quarterly

David Reads His Poetry

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DAVID ALPAUGH

Book: Counterpoint

Book: Heavy Lifting

ESSAYS

Professionalization

On Poetry Contests

New Math of Poetry

Poetry and Song

Götterdammërung

Wheelbarrow Today

 
"…hugely more enjoyable than the last twenty books of poetry I've read."
—X.J. Kennedy—

David Alpaugh's Heavy Lifting
Poems 1995-2006
(an Alehouse Press publication)

(includes the author's landmark essay
"The Professionalization of Poetry")


"Brilliant... astounding... powerful... a superb poetic mind...
Heavy Lifting keeps the reader's heart in hand
to the last phrase and beyond."

—BAY AREA POETS SEASONAL REVIEW—


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“Heavy Lifting has it all: deftness, lightness of touch, metaphor, music and a humane and heartful playfulness. Alpaugh’s work is by turns magically light (‘Singing Along with Miss Worrell’) and timely and to the point (‘War and White Wine’). Altogether—an amazing talent!”  —Robert Sward

"A poet of fine sensibility and bawdy irreverence. An extraordinary literary ruffian of our age, Alpaugh sings with neighborly charm and strikes hard like a smith. No heavy book, this Heavy Lifting, that merrily shows us who we really are.” —F.D. Reeve

"Alpaugh is a gutsy, elegant poet whose stylistic virtuosity allows him unparalleled freedom to enter and illuminate unexplored corners and wrinkles in time. For originality and wit, Heavy Lifting is a delicious and enlightening trip." —Ruth Daigon


Heavy Lifting is available from the author at:
alpaugh.david@gmail.com