That Swing
Poems, 2008-2016
In this, his ninth book of poetry, lyric master X. J. Kennedy regales his readers with engaging rhythm fittingly signaled by the book's title, which echoes Duke Ellington's jazz classic &quote;It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing).&quote; Kennedy's poems, infused with verve and surprise, are by turns irresistibly funny and sharply insightful about life in America.Some poems are personal recollections of childhood and growing up, as in &quote;My Mother Consigns to the Flames My Trove of Comic Books.&quote; &quote;Thomas Hardy's Obsequies&quote; tells the bizarre true account of the literary giant's burial.…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4214-2245-9
- EAN: 9781421422459
- Produktnummer: 35554500
- Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
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