Description |
1 online resource (76 pages) |
Series |
Pitt poetry series |
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Pitt poetry series.
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Contents |
The Difficult Music -- The New World -- Crossing Cocytus -- Wide Sargasso Sea -- Slaves -- Paradise -- Mine -- Provisional -- Brotherhood -- Black Money -- The Lucky One -- Sappho's Fragment Thirty-One Revised -- Two or Three Things I Know About Him -- Shipbuilding -- Popular Beauty -- L'Enlevement d'Amymone -- The Friend -- Clair de Lune -- Faithless -- Three A.M. Eternal -- Reckless -- Bacchus -- Self-Portrait as Shards of Mirror -- Johnny Minotaur -- Perfect -- In the Reading Room -- What Cannot Be Kept -- Kindertotenlieder -- Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair -- A Muse -- Two Boys Glimpsed in Late Light |
Summary |
This first collection of poems enacts the struggle of a young black gay man in his search for identity. Many voices haunt these poems: black and white, male and female, the oppressor's voice as well as the oppressed. The poet's aim, finally, is to rescue some portion of the drowned and the drowning |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Poetry
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poetry.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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Poetry
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9780822979746 |
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0822979748 |
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