The Fire Landscape - Poems

Informationen zum Autor Gary Fincke is professor of English and creative writing at Susquehenna University. He has published nineteen books of poetry! short fiction! and nonfiction. Standing Around the Heart (University of Arkansas Press) was a finalist for the 2007 Paterson Poetry Prize. Sorry I Worried You won the 2003 Flannery O'Connor Prize for Short Fiction. The Canals of Mars: A Memoir will be published this year. Klappentext The Fire Landscape is a series of poem sequences that chronicle a wide variety of coming-of-age moments from childhood in the 1950s through the beginning of the 21st century. These deeply layered, complex narrative poems are connected by close personal observation of place and time but also by the politics of the Cold War and its aftermath, including a sequence driven by the May 4, 1970, shooting of students by the National Guard at Kent State where Gary Fincke was a student at the time. Zusammenfassung Coming of age in post-fifties America.

Product details

• Authors: Gary Fincke
• Publisher: The University of Arkansas Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.07.2008
• EAN: 9781557288813
• ISBN: 978-1-55728-881-3
• No. of pages: 120
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Series: University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series; University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama