XX e-bog
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A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poetsa stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.XX is award-winning poet Campbell McGraths astonishing sequence of one hundred poemsone per yearwritten in a vast range of forms, and in the ...
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Forlag
Ecco
Udgivet
22 marts 2016
Længde
240 sider
Genrer
1KBB
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9780062427373
A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poetsa stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.XX is award-winning poet Campbell McGraths astonishing sequence of one hundred poemsone per yearwritten in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao, Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley. Based on years of historical research and cultural investigation, XX turns poetry into an archival inquiry and a choral documentary. Hollywood and Hiroshima, Modernism and propaganda, Bob Dylan and Walter Benjaminits range of interest encompasses the entire century of art and culture, invention and struggle.Elegiac and celebratory, deeply tragic and wickedly funny, XX is a unique collection from this acknowledged master of historical poetry, and his most ambitious book yet.