This Is Not a Skyscraper - Couverture souple

Kostos, Dean

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1597094161 ISBN 13 : 9781597094160

Editeur : Red Hen Press, 2015

Synopsis

This Is Not a Skyscraper examines New York City through a surrealist lens. Like the title of Magritte's painting, "This is not a pipe," these poems question perceptions of the metropolis. While NYC entices talents that swarm its stages, museums, runways, and readings, throngs of outsiders live on the city's margins, silenced. Among the grotesqueries of corruption, an African immigrant is killed by police in a case of mistaken identity. His disembodied voice introduces the book. Many of these poems attempt to speak for the "others" existing on the peripheral, whose perspectives have been abandoned.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Dean Kostos's collections include Rivering, Last Supper of the Senses, The Sentence That Ends with a Comma (taught at Duke University), and Celestial Rust. He edited Mama's Boy and Pomegranate Seeds. His work has appeared in leading journals: Boulevard, Chelsea, Cimarron Review, Cincinnati Review, Southwest Review, Western Humanities Review, and on Oxygen.com. Having taught at Wesleyan, The Gallatin School, and The City University of New York, he also wrote a libretto for Voices of Ascension, and his poem, "Subway Silk," was translated into a short film by Jill Clark.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Red Hen Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1597094161
• ISBN 13: 9781597094160
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
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