Parallel Play: Poems - Softcover

Burt, Stephanie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555974376 ISBN 13: 9781555974374

Verlag: GRAY WOLF PR, 2006

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Book by Burt Stephen

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"Stephen Burt has found a courage I'd never imagined until I read these poems. It is the courage to expound the consolations of Terror, to declare that we are the Ancients of ourselves, already more accustomed than we know to life in the ruins. With Parallel Play, Burt becomes the Cavafy of these former United States. It will be a privilege to await the barbarians in his good company." --Donald Revell

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The eagerly anticipated second collection by poet and esteemed critic Stephen Burt

Flaunting your useless knowledge has failed you again,
Though it was all they had taught you.
—from "Like a Wreck"

Consult any childhood development guide and you'll find the term "parallel play": when children under two are placed together, they'll play separately but won't interact. They are more fascinated with their immediate surroundings than with each other.

Stephen Burt's second collection of poems, Parallel Play, describes lovers, friends, travelers, and revelers attempting lives dependent on each other but still pulled inevitably into preoccupations of their own self-awareness. When there are many obstacles—overeducation, narcissism, extended adolescence, nomadic existence—how can Americans crawl out of the nursery and coexist if they increasingly have to learn to do so as adults?

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• Verlag: GRAY WOLF PR
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1555974376
• ISBN 13: 9781555974374
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 88