The Red List: A Poem - Brossura

Cushman, Stephen

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0807156892 ISBN 13: 9780807156896

Casa editrice: Louisiana State Univ Pr, 2014

Riassunto

The "red list" of Stephen Cushman's new volume of poetry is the endangered species register, and the book begins and ends with the bald eagle, a bird that bounded back from the verge of extinction. The volume marks the inevitability of such changes, from danger to safety, from certainty to uncertainty, from joy to sadness and back again. In a single poem that advances through wordplay and association, Cushman meditates on subjects as vast as the earth's fragile ecosystem and as small as the poet's own deflated fantasy of self-importance: "There aren't any jobs for more Jeremiahs."

Simultaneously teasing the present and eulogizing what has been lost, Cushman speaks like a Shakespearean jester, freely and foolishly, but with penetrating insight.

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L'autore:

Stephen Cushman is the author of the poetry collections Riffraff, Cussing Lesson, and Blue Pajamas and the nonfiction book Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle. He is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Louisiana State Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0807156892
• ISBN 13: 9780807156896
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 73