| My Town Contributor(s): Lee, David (Author) |
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ISBN: 1556590741 ISBN-13: 9781556590740 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1995 Annotation: Lee's ear for colloquial speech, his attention to concrete detail, and his firsthand knowledge of rural farm life has informed his poetry, making him unique in his generation. Peopled with some of the most authentically drawn characterizations of agrarian life since Mark Twain, Lee's is a small-town universe filled with hilarity, love, labor, and tragicomedy, but above all else, with compassionate wisdom. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| LCCN: 95017053 |
| Physical Information: 0.49" H x 5.54" W x 9" (0.48 lbs) 132 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Winner, 1995 Western States Book Award. Peopled with some of the most authentically drawn characterizations of rural life since Mark Twain, Lee's is a small town universe--an aural agrarian saga, --is filled with hilarity, love, labor, tragicomedy, and compassionate wisdom. It's a speech full of eloquence, pathos, and humor, full of music, full of good sense. I could read it all week.--Hayden Carruth |