From the Book of Giants

Joshua Weiner (Autor)

Buch

87 Seiten

2014 | New ed.
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-89051-7 (ISBN)

Infos

"Song""a""aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa "for Thom GunnaThere is no east or westin the wood you fear and seek, stumbling past a gate of mossand what you would not take.aAnd what you thought you had(the Here that is no rest)you make from it an aidto form no east, no west.aNo east.a No west.a No needfor given map or bell, vehicle, screen, or speed.Forget the house, forget the hill.aTaking its title from a set of writings found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, "From the Book of Giants" retunes the signal broadcast from these ancient fragments, transmitting a new sound in the shape of a Roman drain cover, in imitations of Dante and Martial, in the voice of a cricket and the hard-boiled American photographer Weegee, in elegies both public and personal, and in poems that range from the social speech of letters to the gnomic language of riddles. Out of poetryOCOs OC complex of complaint and praise, OCO Joshua Weiner discovers, in one poem, his own complicity in Empire during his sonOCOs baseball game at the White House. In another, an embroidered parrot sings a hermetic nursery rhyme to an infant after 9/11. "

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 14.5.2014
• Reihe/Serie: Phoenix Poets
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• ISBN-10: 0-226-89051-1 / 0226890511
• ISBN-13: 978-0-226-89051-7 / 9780226890517
• Zustand: Neuware