Ziggurat - Brossura

Balakian, Peter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0226035662 ISBN 13: 9780226035666

Casa editrice: University of Chicago Press, 2011

Riassunto

In his first book of poems since his highly acclaimed June-tree, Peter Balakian continues to define himself as one of the most distinctive voices of his generation. Exploring history, self, and imagination, as well as his ongoing concerns with catastrophe and trauma, many of Balakian’s new poems wrestle with the aftermath and reverberations of 9/11.

Whether reliving the building of the World Trade Towers in the inventive forty-three-section poem that anchors the book, walking the ruins of the Bosnian National Library in Sarajevo, meditating on Andy Warhol’s silk screens, or considering the confluence of music, language, and memory, Balakian continues his meditations on history, as well as on the harshness and beauty of contemporary life, that his readers have enjoyed over the years. In sensual, layered, and sometimes elliptical language, Balakian in Ziggurat explores absence, war, love, and art in a new age of American uncertainty.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Peter Balakian is the Donald M. and Constance H. Rebar Professor in Humanities and professor of English at Colgate University. He is the author of five books of poems and three prose works, includingThe Burning Tigris: The Armenian Genocide and America’s Response, a New York Times best seller; andBlack Dog of Fate, a memoir.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University of Chicago Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0226035662
• ISBN 13: 9780226035666
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 86