10 Mississippi Contributor(s): Healey, Steve (Author) |
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ISBN: 156689252X ISBN-13: 9781566892520 Publisher: Coffee House Press OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
Dewey: 811.6 |
LCCN: 2010016259 |
Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 8.9" (0.35 lbs) 108 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Playful but ominous, 10 Mississippi reads like a game of hide-and-seek set in America's rising floodwaters of text and technology. Fluid, lively, and referential, 10 Mississippi samples language from many cultural tributaries, performing sequels of celebrated twentieth-century poems, darkly riffing on advertising slogans, tongue twisters, formulaic news reports, and everyone's favorite twenty-six-letter sentence, "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog." Like the proverbial river that is never the same twice, Healey's poems channel the constant transformation of the modern world and embrace the human drama in all its absurd variety. |