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Another city : poems /

How does it feel to experience another city' To stand beneath tall buildings, among the countless faces of a crowd' To attempt to be heard above the din' The poems of Another City travel inward and outward at once: into moments of self-reproach and grace, and to those of disassociatio...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Keplinger, David, 1968- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2018.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:How does it feel to experience another city' To stand beneath tall buildings, among the countless faces of a crowd' To attempt to be heard above the din' The poems of Another City travel inward and outward at once: into moments of self-reproach and grace, and to those of disassociation and belonging. From experiences defined by an urban landscape'a thwarted customer at the door of a shuttered bookstore in Crete, a chance encounter with a might-have-been lover in Copenhagen'to the streets themselves, where 'an alley was a comma in the agony's grammar, ' in David Keplinger's hands startling images collide and mingle like bodies on a busy thoroughfare. Yet Another City deftly spans not only the physical space of global cities, but more intangible and intimate distances: between birth and death, father and son, past and present, metaphor and reality. In these poems, our entry into the world is when 'the wound, called loneliness, / opens, ' and our voyage out of it is through a foreign but not entirely unfamiliar constellations of cities: Cherbourg, Manila, Port-au-Prince. A moving, haunting atlas to worlds both interior and exterior.
Descripción Física:1 online resource
ISBN:9781571319500
1571319506