| Item 9780060758042$0.01 - $10.50  up to $0.31 CashbackA collection of the award-winning writer's most diverse and lyrical works continues his exploration of American culture and reflects his powerful applications of diction. By the author of Florida Poems and Spring Comes to Chicago. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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A collection of the award-winning writer's most diverse and lyrical works continues his exploration of American culture and reflects his powerful applications of diction. By the author of Florida Poems and Spring Comes to Chicago. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
"America's epic is the odyssey of appetite," Campbell McGrath declares, and these poems track those defining hungers across a social landscape by turns "grave, risible, amazing, banal," cataloging the "vortex of images in a ruined theater the culture comes to resemble," from Rocky and Bullwinkle to "Blue Angels rampant on a field of static, / anthem and flag descending to darkness." In terza rima meditations, rock-and-roll elegies, and abecedarian lyrics, Pax Atomica documents the tangled romance between self and society ("in which / the melody's ampersand ensnares us") in ways both new and familiar to readers of McGrath's five previous volumes. A continuation as well as a departure for one of America's most highly honored poets, this is poetry of formal eloquence and rhetorical power, of vision and engagement. Pax Atomicadescends into the maelstrom of American culture and emerges singing.
Pax Atomica : Poems General
| ISBN | 9780060758042 |
| Fiction/Non-Fiction | Non-Fiction |
| Publisher | Ecco Pr |
| Pages | 62 |
| List Price | $13.95 |
| Author | McGrath, Campbell |
| Publication Date | 12/01/2005 |
| Release Status | In Print |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Measurements | Height: 9.5 Inches (US)Width: 6.75 Inches (US)Thickness: 0.5 Inches (US)Unit Weight: 0.3 Pounds (US) |
A collection of the award-winning writer's most diverse and lyrical works continues his exploration of American culture and reflects his powerful applications of diction. By the author of Florida Poems and Spring Comes to Chicago. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
"America's epic is the odyssey of appetite," Campbell McGrath declares, and these poems track those defining hungers across a social landscape by turns "grave, risible, amazing, banal," cataloging the "vortex of images in a ruined theater the culture comes to resemble," from Rocky and Bullwinkle to "Blue Angels rampant on a field of static, / anthem and flag descending to darkness." In terza rima meditations, rock-and-roll elegies, and abecedarian lyrics, Pax Atomica documents the tangled romance between self and society ("in which / the melody's ampersand ensnares us") in ways both new and familiar to readers of McGrath's five previous volumes. A continuation as well as a departure for one of America's most highly honored poets, this is poetry of formal eloquence and rhetorical power, of vision and engagement. Pax Atomicadescends into the maelstrom of American culture and emerges singing.
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