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Sound Fury : Poems /

"Over the past 30 years, Mark Levine's work-technically dazzling, wide-ranging in its erudition, irreverent, audacious, rageful, mournful, defiantly original-has clung to a vanishing ideal of poetic language as a corrective to the utterances of corrupt power, and as a repository for desire...

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Autor principal: Levine, Mark, 1965- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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