Traveling in Notions - The Stories of Gordon Penn : Poems

Informationen zum Autor Michael J. Rosen's poetry collections include A Drink at the Mirage and Telling Things, and his poems have appeared in such publications as New Republic, Paris Review, New Criterion, Prairie Schooner, and Salmagundi. He resides in Columbus, Ohio, where he has served as literary director of The Thurber House since 1982. Klappentext In Traveling in Notions Michael J. Rosen creates a novel in poems! a questing contemplation! an alter ego! Gordon Penn! who holds to hopefulness amid circumstances that will have none of it. Penn is a widower! a soon-to-retire notions salesman! a midwestern family man - a man akin to Italo Calvino's optimistic Marcovaldo or a character who might inhabit a story by John Cheever or John Updike. Each poem in the collection relates an episode in Penn's ongoing confrontation with contemporary society. Zusammenfassung Rosen creates a novel in poems! through a questing alter ego Gordon Penn who holds to hopefulness amid circumstances that will have none of it. Each poem relates another episode in Penn's ongoing confrontation with contemporary society.

Product details

• Authors: Michael J Rosen, Michael J. Rosen, Barry Jason Stein
• Publisher: Univ of south carolina press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1996
• EAN: 9781570031571
• ISBN: 978-1-57003-157-1
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 222 mm x 13 mm
• Series: James Dickey Contemporary Poet; James Dickey Contemporary Poet; James Dickey Contemporary Poetry
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies