War Bird

Klappentext In his third book of poems! David Gewanter takes on wartime America! showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities. The constructs of our social lives! the conventions of our political values! the ambitions of our private fantasies--all these collide comically and tragically. Here! the far right marries the far left! and the sacred is undone by the profane. Gewanter's ironic vision pulls together details from science! history! philosophy! the disappearing dailies! and the emotional life of an engaged and singular mind into poems on the move with tense rhythms! rich correspondences! and daring hairpin turns. "War Bird" gives the lie to the shining moral complacencies of the homefront. Unsettling yet radiant! this collection is a book for troubled times! for what Whitman called! in "1861!" our "hurrying! crashing! sad! distracted year." Zusammenfassung A book of poems that takes us on a journey through wartime America! showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities.

Product details

• Authors: David Gewanter, Gewanter David
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2009
• EAN: 9780226289786
• ISBN: 978-0-226-28978-6
• No. of pages: 88
• Series: Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets (Paperback); Phoenix Poets; Phoenix Poets Series PP (CHUP); Phoenix Poets (CHUP)
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry