“[A] wide-ranging, fascinating series of poems that [has] the city
as character at its center, the city as a collective soul, the city as
idea.” —Sycamore Review A William Carlos Williams Award Finalist A
Kansas City Star Top Book of the Year A Library Journal Top Winter
Poetry Pick A series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives
interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The
City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out,
dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on “the City.” It
is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and
observations found in almost any city—past, present, and
future—ring out with urgency. These poems—in turn elegiac,
celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyful—give hum to our modern
experience, to those caught up in the City’s immensity, and announce
the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.
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ISBN
9781571318305
Publisert
2014
Utgiver
Vendor
Milkweed Editions
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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