Opera Bufa

poetryexperimental poetryavant-garde poetryprose poetryprose poetry narratives

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First lines

I was a cadaver in a copse until a cop arrested me. I was a convict in a jumpsuit until I jumped bail. I was a hitchhiker under galactic moon dust until I saw the sun. I was the sun as it rose and I shone on my dead self. I was a copse under the sun. I was a convict and a copse. I was all of this until I learned that you are what you see. I was what I saw until I saw that my eyes were shut. I open…

About this book

*Opera Bufa* is American writer Adam Fieled's first full-length print book, initially released by Mark Young's Otoliths in 2007. It is a cycle of sixty prose poems meant to constitute a comic opera in text, and has been taught at [Loyola University](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZPhAI9JVxow2S6vfFo-3qr37tkSsFnDS/view) in Chicago and elsewhere. Portions of *Opera Bufa* appeared in the fourWeighteen print anthology from fourW Press, at Charles Sturt University in Australia, and in Parisian print journal Upstairs at Duroc (issue 9).

Themes & subjects

poetryexperimental poetryavant-garde poetryprose poetryprose poetry narrativesprose poetry sequences

About the author

Adam Fieled

7 February 1976

American writer Adam Fieled was born in New York City in 1976 but raised in the Philadelphia suburb Cheltenham. He attended Penn State University in the Nineties, but eventually graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in the Aughts. His first print books, *Posit* (2 editions) and *Opera Bufa*, appeared in 2007, and were followed by *When You Bit...*, *Chimes*, *Apparition Poems*, *Equations* (3 editions), and *Cheltenham*, as well as numerous e-books and chapbooks, like *Beams*, *The White Album* (2 editions), *The Posit Trilogy*, and *The Great Recession*. Fieled also earned an MFA from New England College and an MA from Temple University. He currently resides in the Phila…