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Twenty first century blues /

Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in Twenty First Century Blues, the fourth collection from Richard Cecil. Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson's "corpse-eye-view of stony death," or imagining Yeats living in Indiana and d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cecil, Richard, 1944-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Carbondale : Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press, ©2004.
Colección:Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in Twenty First Century Blues, the fourth collection from Richard Cecil. Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson's "corpse-eye-view of stony death," or imagining Yeats living in Indiana and dealing with English department politics, Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty about the shelf life of contemporary poetry. Deadpan and dark, yet pulsing with the spirit of life, these poems speak of historic France, Italy, and Swit
Descripción Física:1 online resource (viii, 98 pages)
ISBN:9780809388813
0809388812