Hyde, Frank Polite, Pangborn Books, poet, poetry, novella noire, Edward Field

"HYDE is like those interwoven designs of the Moslem world that imply complexity, or is it the work of a poet who has moonlighted too many nights in wheat fields laying down crop circles. What is certain — FRANK POLITE has rubbed the Aladdin's lamp of his Art, from whose spout comes whooshing this super Oriental Fantasia. HYDE rides its form, the panthera, through Egypt, Las Vegas, Louis Broomfield's Malabar Farm in Ohio, Athens, the ancient kingdom of Trebizond, meeting an odd mix of people: Bogart, Bacall. C.G. Jung, Yannis Ritsos, the Funj. Diomedes and that weird figure of speech, the zeugma. For the reader, Dangerous Curves are ahead, a lot of fun, and a warning: Hyde is not far behind and catching up."


	HYDE: A Novella Noire by *Frank Polite*

			"*HYDE* is like those interwoven designs of the Moslem world that imply complexity, or is it the work of a poet who has moonlighted too many nights in wheat fields laying down crop circles. What is certain — FRANK POLITE has rubbed the Aladdin's lamp of his Art, from whose spout comes whooshing this super Oriental Fantasia. *HYDE* rides its form, the *panthera, through Egypt, Las Vegas, Louis Broomfield's Malabar Farm in Ohio, Athens, the ancient kingdom of Trebizond, meeting an odd mix of people: Bogart, Bacall. C.G. Jung, Yannis Ritsos, the Funj. Diomedes and that weird figure of speech, the zeugma. For the reader, Dangerous Curves are ahead, a lot of fun, and a warning: Hyde is not far behind and catching up." — Edward Field*

	"HYDE is dazzling, hilarious, beautiful, profound ... a ride unlike any other." — Citation: International Quarterly Award

			About Frank Polite 1936-2005 Frank Polite's writings have been widely published in magazines, journals and anthologies, including: The New Yorker, Harper's, Poetry, The Nation, *Yankee, Exquisite Corpse, The North American Review* and *Denver Quarterly. Polite's work won the 1997 International Quarterly* $500 Crossing Boundaries Award, 1996 Hart Crane Award, 1998 Pushcart Award, 1999 Ledge Poetry Award, the 2004 Robinson Jeffers Tor House Poetry Award and was twice the reciepient of the $5000 Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Award.

	About the Panthera		*HYDE* is written in the *panthera* form. Each poem consists of three stanzas of seven lines each. No line may be longer than 28 spaces.

	Also by Frank Polite:		Letters of Transit (1979) Flamingo (1990)

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	© 2004 Frank Polite
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