The Geocryptogrammatist's Pocket Compendium of the United States - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0971128804 ISBN 13: 9780971128804

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A sequence of 50 haiku-like poems composed in strict syllabics, Karl Elder's COMPENDIUM is the poet's ode to America, though not without a critical eye and an insightful tongue. Sometimes comic, sometimes serious, and always playful, the sequence reveals in the manner of montage a great nation's character and heritage, while the character of states is suggested through contemplation of the enigmatic qualities of states' abbreviations, names, and shapes.

Beautiful in itself, THE GEOCRYPTOGRAMMATIST'S POCKET COMPENDIUM OF THE UNITED STATES is a limited edition chapbook, a genuine object of art, with each state illustrated by hand with the aid of computer graphics.

Book designer Carrie McWithey chose to compliment visual aspects of the poems with elements or properties of physical entities often associated with the United States--its flag; a U.S. passport; and THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, THE CONSTITUTION, and old maps.

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Karl Elder is Lakeland College's Fessler Professor of Creative Writing. Among his honors are a Pushcart Prize for poetry, The Lucien Stryk Award for poetry, grants from the Illinois Arts Council for poetry and fiction, and Lakeland's Outstanding Teacher Award. Four of his books have appeared from Prickly Pear Press, including PHOBOPHOBIA and A MAN IN PIECES. His poems and essays are published widely in magazines and several anthologies, THE BEST AMERICAN POETRY; SEPTEMBER 11, 2001: AMERICAN WRITERS RESPOND; and A FINE EXCESS: FIFTY YEARS OF THE BELOIT POETRY JOURNAL among them. For over two decades he has edited the literary magazine SEEMS.

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• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0971128804
• ISBN 13: 9780971128804
• Einband: Taschenbuch
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