Beautiful False Things - Poems

This tenth collection of Irving Feldman's poems extends what readers and critics have long recognized as a body of work singular in its lyric, visionary, even prophetic intensity; its extravagant wit; its powerful storytelling; and its variety of voices and range of feeling - playful, tender, ardent, biting, enthralled. Here, among the major poems of Beautiful False Things, the stand-up comic Larry Sunrise of "Funny Bones" duels with death in Florida; in "Oedipus Host," Oedipus arrives from his millennia-long trek to host a TV talk show; and the plucky feminist heroine of "Heavenly Muse" visits yet another barely worthy male poet. In the tragicomic title poem, "translation" comes to stand for the dilemmas of expression in a culture that sucks up language and spews it back.

Product details

• Authors: Irving Feldman
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.03.2000
• EAN: 9780802136572
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-3657-2
• No. of pages: 112
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 209 mm x 8 mm
• Weight: 141 g
• Illustrations: Illustrationen, nicht spezifiziert
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Florida, Poetry, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Nature, c 1990 to c 1999, Father’s Day, TOPICAL / Inspiration, lyric;vision;Larry Sunrise;Oedipus;translation