| Sufficiency of the Actual Contributor(s): Stein, Kevin (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252033094 ISBN-13: 9780252033094 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $48.51 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2008 Annotation: Poems reflecting the rich panoply of personal and public life in modern America, from the Poet Laureate of Illinois |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2008012686 |
| Series: Illinois Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.59" H x 6.42" W x 9.04" (0.64 lbs) 104 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In this ambitious collection, Kevin Stein enters the volatile intersection of private lives and larger public history. In poems variously formal and experimental, improvisational and narrative, wisely silly and playfully forlorn, Stein renders the human carnival flexed across the tattooed bulk of "history's bicep." Musical and refreshingly unaffected, Stein's poems yoke the domains of high and low art. His poems address subjects by turns surprising, edgy, and humorous. They offer musings on the Slinky and the atomic bomb, elegies for a miscarried pregnancy and the late physicist Edward Teller, reflections on night-shift factory work and President Eisenhower's golf caddy, and meditations on the politics of post-colonialism and a youthful antiwar streaking incident. Against this vivid backdrop parades a motley cast of American characters seeking wiry balance in a fragile world. |