Shannon - A Poem of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Zusatztext "A meditation on a new! westering nation's discovery of its own inestimable riches....Surely! the sort of task McGrath undertakes here represents one of literature's profoundest pleasures. A poet tirelessly digs up something buried by days! years! centuries. And then he holds it to the light." Informationen zum Autor Campbell McGrath’s previous collections are Capitalism, American Noise, Spring Comes to Chicago, Road Atlas, Florida Poems, and Pax Atomica. His awards include the Kingsley Tufts Prize and fellowships from the Guggenheim and MacArthur Foundations. He teaches in the creative writing program at Florida International University in Miami. Klappentext Who finds this body Be it known My name is George Shannon & I bequeath my remains To seed this land With American bones. From the inimitable Campbell McGrath comes an epic poem of George Shannon, the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, who wandered the prairie alone for sixteen days. Spinning a tale of adventure and wonderment, McGrath gives voice to Shannon's lost weeks in the wilderness, a harrowing journey of survival and discovery. With Shannon , McGrath has created both a thrilling narrative that rises from the once vast, lonely spaces of the American west and a compelling portrait of that now ineradicably altered landscape—then unmapped, wild yet bounteous, teeming with buffalo and home to native peoples—that continues to haunt the American imagination. Zusammenfassung “An unexpected story and a gem of a book.” — Pittsburgh Post-Gazette   The incomparable Campbell McGrath, whom Outside magazine calls, “A writer who could help save poetry from academia and get the rest of us reading it again,” delivers an astounding work: Shannon, an epic poem that traces the remarkable journey of the youngest member of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The Kansas City Star praises Shannon as, “A luminescent narrative…a myth of American character before its corruption,” and Campbell McGrath—Poet Laureate, Guggenheim Fellowship, Pushcart Prize, and three-time Academy of American Poets Prize winner—proves once again to be truly an “everyman poet” who channels the spirit of Walt Whitman in this lyrical adventure. ...

Product details

• Authors: Campbell Mcgrath, Mcgrath Campbell
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.04.2011
• EAN: 9780061661303
• ISBN: 978-0-06-166130-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 8 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Historical fiction, Poetry, Caribbean islands, United States of America, USA, Anthologies: general, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America, Fiction: general and literary, FICTION: Women, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Westerns, POETRY: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Classics, POETRY: Caribbean & Latin American, FICTION: Animals, POETRY: American / Asian American, POETRY: Haiku *, Classic fiction: general and literary, POETRY: American / Asian American & Pacific Islander, Poetry by form: Haiku