Middens Of the Tribe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoffman, Daniel

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American poetry--20th century.

American poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 1995.

Summary:

"Part family romance, part deconstructed novel, Middens of the Tribe repossesses for poetry a range of experience long ceded to fiction. With his well-tuned ear for the rhythms of speech and his resourceful versing, Daniel Hoffman explores the consonances and contrasts between interconnected lives in a modern city and an archaeologist's reconstruction of a primitive people's past: Can the middens / of the tribe I study tell if family / strife always reveals a culture's dynamics, / if, amid bones, flints, sufferings are the same?" "Leavened by touches comic and grotesque, Middens of the Tribe reveals, in the nexus of lives intertwined, a cubist rendering of intimacy, alienation, and loss."--BOOK JACKET.

Notes:

Preliminaries omitted.