The Red List - Couverture souple

Cushman, Stephen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0807156892 ISBN 13 : 9780807156896

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The "red list" of Stephen Cushman's new volume of poetry is the endangered species register, and the book begins and ends with the bald eagle, a bird that bounded back from the verge of extinction. The volume marks the inevitability of such changes, from danger to safety, from certainty to uncertainty, from joy to sadness and back again. In a single poem that advances through wordplay and association, Cushman meditates on subjects as vast as the earth's fragile ecosystem and as small as the poet's own deflated fantasy of self-importance: "There aren't any jobs for more Jeremiahs."

Simultaneously teasing the present and eulogizing what has been lost, Cushman speaks like a Shakespearean jester, freely and foolishly, but with penetrating insight.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stephen Cushman is a poet and a scholar of American literature and the Civil War. His recent books include Hothead: A Poem and The Generals' Civil War: What Their Memoirs Can Teach Us Today. He is the Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807156892
• ISBN 13: 9780807156896
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 88
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• Personne responsable: non disponible