Poetry in America

"Poetry in America" offers extravagantly formed lyric and narrative poems that function like works of social realism for our times: hard times, wartime, divorce, times of downturn and dissipated resources.

About the author

Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author of Sleeping Preacher, Eve's Striptease, Poetry in America, and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields, a documentary project created in collaboration with photographer Steven Rubin. She has also published a collection of essays, The Body and the Book: Writing from a Mennonite Life, and a biographical study, Fixing Tradition: Joseph W. Yoder, Amish American.

Summary

Poetry in America offers lyric and narrative poems that function like works of social realism for our times: hard times, wartime, divorce, times of downturn and dissipated resources.

Product details

• Authors: Julia Kasdorf, Julia Spicher Kasdorf
• Publisher: University Of Pittsburgh Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.2011
• EAN: 9780822961567
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6156-7
• No. of pages: 88
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 224 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 159 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry Series; Pitt Poetry (Paperback); Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies