STRANGE COUNTRY
Fascinated by strangeness that's made in the U.S.A.-its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past-Strange Country lyrically addresses itself to defining American landscapes/dreamscapes, and to their unaccountable beauty. In Strange Country Jon Thompson addresses the voices, amongst others, of 'the traffic of fear', and bids their speakers join the living. It is also an invitation to the reader to enter a specifically American poetry of the here-and-now. The accomplishment of Strange Country begins with the exact measure of its line and its discovered idiom in the face…
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- ISBN: 978-1-84861-482-6
- EAN: 9781848614826
- Produktnummer: 20657711
- Verlag: Shearsman Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 80 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D0.4 cm 114 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 114
Über den Autor
Jon Thompson is an associate professor of English at North Carolina State University, where he teaches courses in twentieth century literature. In addition to his publications in poetry, he has published Fiction, Crime and Empire (University of Illinois Press, 1993). He also edits Free Verse: A Journal of Contemporary Poetry & Poetics and is the editor of Parlor Press's poetry series, Free Verse Editions.
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