Self-portrait With Spurs and Sulfur - Poems

Informationen zum Autor Casey Thayer's work has appeared in American Poetry Review, Devil's Lake, Poetry, and elsewhere. He has held fellowships at Northern Michigan University and Stanford University, where he is currently a Wallace Stegner Fellow. Klappentext Part fun-house hall of mirrors in its distorted and dizzying central narrative, part spaghetti western, and part prayer, Self-Portrait with Spurs and Sulfur is an exploration into the possibilities of storytelling. Through persona poems and odes, the collection argues that the muddier the narrative, the closer the story gets to truth. Zusammenfassung Part fun-house hall of mirrors in its distorted and dizzying central narrative! part spaghetti western! and part prayer! Self-Portrait with Spurs and Sulfur is an exploration into the possibilities of storytelling. Through persona poems and odes! the collection argues that the muddier the narrative! the closer the story gets to truth.

Product details

• Authors: Casey Thayer
• Publisher: University Of New Mexico Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9780826337078
• ISBN: 978-0-8263-3707-8
• No. of pages: 80
• Series: Mary Burritt Christiansen Poet; Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series; Mary Burritt Christiansen Poet; Mary Burritt Christiansen Poetry Series
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies