The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible - Softcover

Wangerin Jr., Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1532616694 ISBN 13: 9781532616693

Verlag: Cascade Books, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible is a volume of poems divided into three parts. The three parts are bound together by a brace of persistent and developing themes, as well as by the repetition (and the development) of language, metaphor, and imagery. Part 1 presents various characters (mostly African American) confronting death. The poems in part 2 are spoken by an unnamed narrator about his cancer. My cancer, actually, and my experiences. Parts 2 and 3 both descend into silence. Part 3 is a radical reworking of the ancient Mesopotamian epic loosely known as The Songs of Heaven and Hell. The poems are not a translation, though each derives from a separate song, and each uses the characters, the events, the worldview, and the stark imagery of Babylon in the third century BCE. In many respects, these poems have the prosody of the biblical psalms.

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Walter Wangerin, Jr. has won the National Book Award, the New York Times Best Children's Book of the Year Award, and several Gold Medallion Awards, including two best-fiction awards. The author of more than forty books, including poetry collections The Absolute, Relatively Inaccessible (Cascade, 2017) and On an Age-Old Anvil (Cascade, 2018). Wangerin lives in Valparaiso, Indiana, where he is Senior Research Professor at Valparaiso University.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cascade Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1532616694
• ISBN 13: 9781532616693
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 94
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