War bird /
In his third book of poems, David Gewanter takes on wartime America, showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities. The constructs of our social lives, the conventions of our political values, the ambitions of our private fantasies--all these collide comically and tragically. Here, the fa...
Основен автор: | Gewanter, David. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2009.
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Серия: |
Phoenix poets.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=295586 |
Подобни документи: |
Print version::
War bird. |
Резюме: |
In his third book of poems, David Gewanter takes on wartime America, showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities. The constructs of our social lives, the conventions of our political values, the ambitions of our private fantasies--all these collide comically and tragically. Here, the far right marries the far left, and the sacred is undone by the profane. Gewanter's ironic vision pulls together details from science, history, philosophy, the disappearing dailies, and the emotional life of an engaged and singular mind into poems on the move with tense rhythms, rich correspondences, a. |
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Физически характеристики: |
1 online resource (xi, 73 pages). |
Библиография: |
Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: |
9780226289793 0226289796 1282426478 9781282426474 |