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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Carbondale :
Crab Orchard Review : Southern Illinois University Press,
©2004.
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Colección: | Crab Orchard award series in poetry.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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 |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 98 pages) |
ISBN: | 9780809388813 0809388812 |