Just Let Me Say This About That - Softcover

Bricuth, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585674001 ISBN 13: 9781585674008

Verlag: Overlook Books, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

This hilarious and lyrical narrative poem takes the form of a press conference, hosted by "Sir," a ventriloquistic God who at turns is the Creator, the President of the United States, everybody's father, psychoanalyst or sage—someone to go to with your problems. "Bird," along with "Fox," and "Fish" are journalists, their questions veiled in rhetoric. They aren't really asking political questions. No Sir. What they really want to know is no less than the meaning of life.

Just Let Me Say This About That is uncanny and familiar, wacky and eloquent . . . and down-the-line American in its sense and sensibility. As J.M. Coetzee writes, "this is the kind of philosophical poem we have deserved but not been given before, confronting the closing years of the American century with bleak hilarity and an unblinking eye."

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John Bricuth is the poetic alter ego of the literary critic John T. Irwin, Decker Professor in the Humanities at the Johns Hopkins University and chairman for almost twenty years of the university's Writing Seminars. A former editor of The Georgia Review, Irwin now edits the fiction and poetry series at Johns Hopkins. His most recent volume of criticism, The Mystery to a Solution, won the Christian Gauss prize from Phi Beta Kappa for the best scholarly book in the humanities in 1994 and the Scaglione Prize from the Modern Language Association for the best scholarly book in comparative literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Overlook Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1585674001
• ISBN 13: 9781585674008
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 124
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