Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil - Brossura

Wright, C. D.

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ISBN 10: 1556592167 ISBN 13: 9781556592164

Casa editrice: Copper Canyon Pr, 2005

Riassunto

An unruly paean to American poetry, Cooling Time blurs the divisions between poem, memoir, and essay, while borrowing regularly from the peculiarities and backwaters of the American idiom. The book's title derives from a line of legal defense, unique to Texas courts: if a person kills someone before having had time "to cool" after receiving an injury or an insult, he is not guilty of murder. Ever focused on possibilities, C.D. Wright demonstrates that "the search for models becomes a search for alternatives." Filled with humor, eroticism, and an hypnotic fascination with language, Cooling Time is a prickly love-letter to the life of poetry.

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L'autore:

C.D. Wright, a Professor of English at Brown University, is the author of eleven books of poetry, as well as several collaborative works with photographer Deborah Luster, most recently One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana. She has earned fellowships from the MacArthur and Guggenheim foundations, and is the recipient of a Lannan Literary Award. She lives in Rhode Island.

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• Editore: Copper Canyon Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1556592167
• ISBN 13: 9781556592164
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 108