Rhapsodies of a Repeat Offender: Poems - Rilegato

Koestenbaum, Wayne

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 089255200X ISBN 13: 9780892552009

Casa editrice: Persea Books, 1994

Riassunto

The collection's cornerstones are two rhapsodies - long poems which combine the richness of a novel, the intimacy of a lyric, and the immediacy of a performance. At the climax of the first, the poet meets his double, a dying boy whose shameful moniker is "Baldie." As if in response to this explosive confrontation, the poet dares to write a second, wilder "Rhapsody" - a confessional, improvisatory fantasia, virtually a book in itself, where abjection blossoms into formally-innovative extravagance.
Three sequences complete the collection: "Piano Life," a series of haunted meditations on music and mortality; "Erotic Collectibles," a disarmingly unsentimental account of sexual awakening; and "Star Vehicles," in which the poet sees his perplexities reflected in Bette Davis, Sophia Loren, Ida Lupino, and other leading ladies.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Wayne Koestenbaum is Associate Professor of English at Yale.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Persea Books
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 089255200X
• ISBN 13: 9780892552009
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile