There It Is: New and Selected Poems

Autori

• Michael Casey

Parametri

• 162 pagine
• 6 ore di lettura

• Narrativa
• Poesia

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In 1972, Michael Casey won the Yale Younger Poets Prize for Obscenities, a collection of poems drawn from his military experience during the Vietnam War. In his forward to the book, judge Stanley Kunitz called the work a kind of anti-poetry that befits a kind of war empty of any kind of glory and the first significant book of poems written by an American to spring from the war in Vietnam. Its raw depictions of war s mundanity and obscenity resonated with a broad audience, andObscenities went into a mass market paperback edition, and was stocked in drugstores as well as bookstores. In the decades since, Casey s poetry has continued to document the places of his work and life. Then and now, his poems foreground the voices around him over that of a single author; they are the words of young American conscripts and their Vietnamese counterparts, coworkers and bosses, neighbors and strangers. His compressed sketches and unadorned monologues have appeared in The New York Times, The Nation, and Rolling Stone. There It Is: New and Selected Poems presents, for the first time, a full tour through Casey s work, from his 1972 debut to 2011 s Check Points, together with new and uncollected work from the late 60s on. Here are all the locations of Casey s life and work Lowell to Landing Zone, dye house to desk and an ensemble cast with a lot to say. -- Provided by publisher

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2017

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