{"id":290,"date":"2018-11-29T13:34:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=290"},"modified":"2018-11-29T13:41:18","modified_gmt":"2018-11-29T17:41:18","slug":"theme-of-line-by-chuck-joy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/?p=290","title":{"rendered":"Theme of Line by Chuck Joy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kin to Penny Lane<\/i>\u2019s most postmodern of moments (though she feels as if she\u2019s in a play \/ she is anyway<\/i>) Chuck Joy\u2019s Theme Of Line<\/i> is much more than the sum of its \"Theme<\/a>parts. Its thematic narrative is driven by an engaging lyricism familiar to followers of his work and, though he may posit a cartoon life, no one, but no one, gets away without paying the piper. Cue the klaxon horn, sisters and brothers. Chuck Joy holds up the mirror, daring you to take a long, deep look. To which I say double down, pass it on.<\/p>\n

Don Wentworth,\u00a0Editor, Lilliput Review<\/i><\/p>\n

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Joy\u2019s Theme Of Line<\/i> swims in waves of an unique undulation. Observations on \u201clife, the suffering outside my picture window\u201d. Laden with images drawn from his own imagination, \u201coddly twisted that foot, to an angle unavailable in life\u201d. Life in lines. Thought as poetry. \u201cPoetry, a powerful and nonspecific consciousness enhancer\u201d. Observations on all things, dear to us and things \u201cfar enough away to recognize our insignificance\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFasten Your Seat Belt\u201d. Enjoy the ride.<\/p>\n

Cee Williams,\u00a0Director, Poets\u2019 Hall<\/p>\n

Chuck’s poems have appeared in\u00a0Great Lakes Review, Ampersand Review, Crisis Chronicles, Lilliput Review,\u00a0Chiron Review, Tobeco, JAMA,\u00a0Intentionalwalkreview.com, Cotyledon, Rattapallax,\u00a0Tempus, Mediphors, guide to kulchur, 2 Bridges, Foundlings,\u00a0and others, as well as in anthologies edited by Jack Coulehan, John Graham-Pole, Berwyn Moore, and Sean Thomas Dougherty.\u00a0Joy has presented his poems from stages at Poe\u2019s Caf\u00e9, Cuppaccino’s, 1000 French, Poets\u2019 Hall, the Woodlawn Diner, Dog Ears Book Store, every Snoetry, the Confluence, Blue Cat Stew, the Hessler Street Fair, Karma Koffee, Mac’s Backs,\u00a0Baybreeze Lounge, Authors Books, Poetry In The Park,\u00a0Poetry Park, Mahall’s 20 Lanes, the Saturn Series, Cornelia Street Cafe, and the Orange Bear. His 1999 appearance with Robert Dunn on Poet to Poet is availale on Youtube.<\/p>\n

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Kin to Penny Lane\u2019s most postmodern of moments (though she feels as if she\u2019s in a play \/ she is anyway) Chuck Joy\u2019s Theme Of Line is much more than the sum of its parts. Its thematic narrative is driven by an engaging lyricism familiar to followers of his work and, though he may posit a cartoon life, no one, but no one, gets away without paying the piper. Cue the klaxon horn, sisters and brothers. Chuck Joy holds up the mirror, daring you to take a long, deep look. To which I say double down, pass it on. Don Wentworth,\u00a0Editor, Lilliput Review   Joy\u2019s Theme Of Line swims in waves of an unique undulation. Observations on \u201clife, the suffering outside my picture window\u201d. Laden with images drawn from his own imagination, \u201coddly twisted that foot, to an angle unavailable in life\u201d. Life in lines. Thought as poetry. \u201cPoetry, a powerful and nonspecific consciousness enhancer\u201d. Observations on all things, dear to us and things \u201cfar enough away to recognize our insignificance\u201d. \u201cFasten Your Seat Belt\u201d. Enjoy the ride. Cee Williams,\u00a0Director, Poets\u2019 Hall Chuck’s poems have appeared in\u00a0Great Lakes Review, Ampersand Review, Crisis Chronicles, Lilliput Review,\u00a0Chiron Review, Tobeco, JAMA,\u00a0Intentionalwalkreview.com, Cotyledon, Rattapallax,\u00a0Tempus,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Theme-of-Line-front-cover.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/300"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/redgiantbooks.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}