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War bird / David Gewanter.
De Gruyter University of Chicago Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 Available online
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gewanter, David.
- Series:
- Phoenix poets.
- Phoenix poets
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry.
- American literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (87 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- From Three at 4:43And here comes my friend, limping onhis heavy boot, the heel come off. A cobbler's shopappears, and I buy the black nails, the dwarf's hammer, glue and strapping. I work hard on it, bending thereuntil he speaks and walks on.But as he is dead, his voice and stepmake no sound. In his third book of poems, David Gewanter takes on wartime America, showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities. The constructs of our social lives, the conventions of our political values, the ambitio
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- The Old Parables
- One. Day Book
- Two. American Incognito
- Notes
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9786612426476
- 9781282426474
- 1282426478
- 9780226289793
- 0226289796
- OCLC:
- 489126455
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