| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: I. ORDINARY SKY -- Elijah versus Santa -- More Money than God -- Worth -- Cezanne Forgets His Wife's Funeral -- What's So Funny? -- My Mother, at Sixty, Learns to Drive -- Dead Negro -- II. BETWEEN POETRY AND PEACE -- Pinecone and Comb -- Obama Checks Black -- Four Wars -- Fugu -- Location, Location, Location -- Recital -- III. THIS COSTUME'S NO DISGUISE -- Actor -- Death's Costume -- About Face -- Factory Outlet -- Death's Secret Life -- Death's Dog -- Death's Dinner Party -- IV. ANGELS IN TRAINING -- Another Holocaust Poem -- Artist -- At the Book Signing -- Art Gallery: Summer Intern -- Tattoos on Jews -- Heritage Tour Package -- Forgiveness -- V. UNADDRESSED ENVELOPE -- Dante's Politics -- Two Harvests -- Sudden Death -- Business of America -- Communists versus the Capitalists -- Richard Michelson at the Old Bailey -- Ice Hotel -- Death Valley |
| Summary |
How do we come to terms with loss? How do we find love after tragedy? How can art and language help us to cope with life, and honor the dead? How does one act responsibly in a world that is both beautiful, full of suffering, and balanced precariously on the edge of despair and ruin? With humor, anger and great tenderness, Richard Michelson's poems explore the boundaries between the personal and the political, and the connections between history and memory. Growing up under the shadow of the Holocaust, in a Brooklyn neighborhood consumed with racial strife, Michelson's experiences were far from ordinary, yet they remain too much a part of the greater circle of poverty and violence to be dismissed as merely private concerns, safely past. It is Michelson's sense of humor and acute awareness of Jewish history, with its ancient emphasis on the fundamental worth of human existence that makes this accessible book, finally, celebratory and life-affirming |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
American poetry.
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FICTION -- General.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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American poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780822980421 |
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0822980428 |
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0822963337 |
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9780822963332 |
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