| Scorpio Rising: Selected Poems Contributor(s): Katrovas, Richard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0887485340 ISBN-13: 9780887485343 Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 2010939574 |
| Series: Carnegie Mellon Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.60 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Culled from six previous collections, Scorpio Rising: Selected Poems, is the culmination of a thirty-five-year career. Katrovas's early poems reflect a harrowing childhood on the highways of America as his parents fled the FBI. They also probe the gas-lit backstreets of New Orleans's French Quarter where the protean human heart/is nature's crime against us. Witness to Prague's Velvet Revolution while on a Fulbright Fellowship, Katrovas in his later poems meditates upon his own American identity as he raises bi-cultural, bilingual daughters. Katrovas's formal verse has an edge we do not usually associate with traditionally formal poetry. Understanding that all gendered identity is a construction, Katrovas explores, as few lyric poets have, the linguistic and emotional contours of masculinity. |