Safe Houses I Have Known (eBook)

Steve Healey (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2019
Coffee House Press (Verlag)
978-1-56689-569-9 (ISBN)

Infos

As a child during the height of the Cold War, Steve Healey learns that his father is a spy for the CIA. Beneath the banality of everyday lifethe suburbs of Washington, DC; school and play; his parents' deteriorating marriageassumed names, parallel lives, and myriad Cold War menaces linger. Drawing from CIA training manuals and pop culture references alike, Healey's poetry is both intimate and claustrophobic. In these poems, the natural anxiety of childhood is compounded by the weight of both national and family secrets, and Healey draws deep parallels between the shaky foundations of truth in his past and the paranoia and obfuscation that envelops our nation's present.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.9.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Lyrik / Gedichte
• Schlagworte: Childhood anxiety • childhood shame • CIA • Civilian Life • clandestine terminology • clever wordplay • code words • Cold War • Deception • Divorce • Erasure Poetry • Espionage • family secrets • father son relationships • Growing Up • national security • Paranoia • poetry about dads • Ruse • Surveillance
• ISBN-10: 1-56689-569-3 / 1566895693
• ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-569-9 / 9781566895699