| Visiting Picasso Contributor(s): Barnes, Jim (Author) |
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ISBN: 0252073738 ISBN-13: 9780252073731 Publisher: University of Illinois Press OUR PRICE: $22.77 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 2006 Annotation: Jim Barnes's familiarity with the European poetic traditions has been deepened through long periods spent in France, Germany, and Italy, and through his translations of European poetry. In Visiting Picasso he repays Europe for its gifts to him in a series of poems that evoke the lush poetic history that ties European culture together, sometimes darkly. A heightened sense of place and purpose infuses the poems of Visiting Picasso with meaning drawn from actual landscapes, events, and observations. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2006029930 |
| Series: Illinois Poetry Series (Ips) |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 8.88" W x 5.71" (0.39 lbs) 112 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jim Barnes's familiarity with the European poetic traditions has been deepened through long periods spent in France, Germany, and Italy, and through his translations of European poetry. In Visiting Picasso he repays Europe for its gifts to him in a series of poems that evoke the lush poetic history that ties European culture together, sometimes darkly. A heightened sense of place and purpose infuses the poems of Visiting Picasso with meaning drawn from actual landscapes, events, and observations. |