Devotions
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Published: |
University of Chicago Press,
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Publisher Address: | Chicago London |
Publication Dates: | 2011. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
Series: |
Phoenix poets |
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Carrier Form: | x, 88 p.: ; 23 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780226764351 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226764354 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | I712 |
CLC: | I712.2 |
Call Number: | I712.2/S643 |
Contents: | "These poems visit high schools, laundromats, motels, films, and dreams in order to measure the American hunger and thirst. They are interested in the things we profess to hold most dear as well as what's unspoken and unbidden. While we're receiving a call or while we're passing through an X-ray machine, the personal is intersected--sometimes violently, sometimes tenderly--with the hum and buzz of the culture. Whether in New York or Tuscaloosa, Seattle or Philadelphia, past or present, the culture carries the burden of race and 'someone's idea of beauty.'"--Book cover. |