What We Did While We Made More Guns

The poems in What We Did While We Made More Guns investigate the place where economic failure meets a widening acculturation of violence - a kind of Great Acceleration of soul extinction set in this spectacularly uneasy moment in American history.

About the author

Dorothy Barresi is the author of four previous books of poetry: American Fanatics; Rouge Pulp; The Post-Rapture Diner, winner of an American Book Award; and All of the Above, winner of the Barnard New Women Poets Prize. She is the recipient of two Pushcart Prizes and Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the North Carolina Arts Council. She is professor of English and creative writing at California State University, Northridge.

Summary

The poems in What We Did While We Made More Guns investigate the place where economic failure meets a widening acculturation of violence—a kind of Great Acceleration of soul extinction set in this spectacularly uneasy moment in American history.

Product details

• Authors: Dorothy Barresi
• Publisher: Univ Of Pittsburgh Pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9780822965237
• ISBN: 978-0-8229-6523-7
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 228 mm x 12 mm
• Weight: 181 g
• Series: Pitt Poetry; Pitt Poetry Series; Pitt Poetry
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama