The Pilot Star Elegies

Santos, Sherod

ISBN 10: 0393047040 / ISBN 13: 9780393047042

Edité par W. W. Norton & Company, New York, New York, U. S. A., 1999

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Stated First Edition With The Number Line Indicating A First Printing. The Jacket Is In Near Fine Condition With Light Rubbing.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: The Pilot Star Elegies
• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company, New York, New York, U. S. A.
• Date de parution: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0393047040
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780393047042
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Near Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

The centerpiece of this collection, "Elegy for My Sister," is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poet's sister. It opens with the haunting question, "Who was she whose death now made her / a stranger to me?" That simple question, so intimately linked to the larger issues of identity, grief, memory, love, language, and family history, leads him to gather, piece by piece, the scattered fragments of his sister's life. In other poems, Sherod Santos follows this elegiac theme into the broader contexts of the Holocaust, myth, and contemporary history to explore the ways each private loss is overlaid by those harrowing conditions through which our century defines itself.

À propos de l?auteur

Sherod Santos is the author of seven books of poetry. A National Book Award finalist, he received an Award in Literature from the Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in Chicago, where he works in an outreach program for the homeless.