Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems
(American Poets Project #8)
$39.34
- Hardcover
230 pages
- Release Date
30 March 2004
Summary
Poet, journalist, and crime novelist, Kenneth Fearing wrote poems filled with the jargon of advertising and radio broadcasts and tabloid headlines, sidewalk political oratory, and the pop tunes on the jukebox. Seeking out what he called “the new and complex harmonies … of a strange and still more complex age,” he evoked the jitters of the Depression and the war years in a voice alternately sardonic and melancholy, and depicted a fragmenting urban world bombarded by restless desires and unnerv…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781931082570 |
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| ISBN-10: | 193108257X |
| Author: | Kenneth Fearing |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 230 |
| Release Date: | 30 March 2004 |
| Weight: | 240g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 122mm x 15mm |
| Series: | American Poets Project |
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About The Author
Kenneth Fearing
Robert Politois a poet, biographer, and critic. His books includeDoubles,A Reader’s Guide to James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover, andSavage Art- A Biography of Jim Thompson, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He directs the Graduate Writing Program at New School University in New York City.
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