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The Architecture of Language
Poems by Quincy Troupe
Reviews
Library Journal:
"[Troupe’s] long title poem, ambitious and all-encompassing, is worth the price of the book, but there are also wonderful tributes to Richard Pryor, Lucille Clifton, and Tiger Woods. This is the stuff of history, the everyday play of living and seeing caught before it changes and then, in an instant, changes again."
Jayne Cortez:
"What is it poetry seeks? How does it feel to organize against the war in Iraq? What is the architecture of language? These are questions raised by Quincy Troupe in his latest collection of poetry, which also contains poems dedicated to the creativity of famous professionals including Richard Pryor, Lucille Clifton, and Tiger Woods. This volume is a wonderful energetic poetic take-it-to-the-hoop in Guadeloupe Quincy Troupe moment."
Diane Di Prima:
"Quincy Troupe’s poetry is a complexity of image, a richness of meter weaving the experiences of today’s primordial cities and civilizations into the memories of the blood. This book is a kaleidoscopic play of the rise and fall of histories, epic and personal, contained and shaped always by the structure—the architecture—of language. Travel with this great poet into some of his many worlds."
Campbell McGrath:
"In a time when so much that is written skims lightly across the surface of our lives, the poetry of Quincy Troupe plunges deep into the river of the real. His work reminds us that poetry is not a dialect but a tongue. The Architecture of Language is important not only for the rich and musical poetry it contains, but for the new chapter it adds to one of American literature’s most vital contemporary oeuvres."
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