The Steel Veil
Autor Jack Marshallen Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2008
“Marshall’s canvases, expansive as Jackson Pollock paintings, comprehend every thing from string beans to string theory.”—Poetry
Soulfully introspective and viscerally engaged, Jack Marshall’s poetry weds timely depictions of Middle Eastern widows “behind veils heavy / as the steel / veil of empire” with timeless expressions of personal grief and political outrage. Invoking visionary possibilities of being while “riding unsteadily on the rails / of rhyme,” Marshall’s distinctive voice and elegant lyrics unite this muscled, multilayered collection.
Born in 1936 to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall grew up in New York and now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several award-winning poetry collections.
Soulfully introspective and viscerally engaged, Jack Marshall’s poetry weds timely depictions of Middle Eastern widows “behind veils heavy / as the steel / veil of empire” with timeless expressions of personal grief and political outrage. Invoking visionary possibilities of being while “riding unsteadily on the rails / of rhyme,” Marshall’s distinctive voice and elegant lyrics unite this muscled, multilayered collection.
Born in 1936 to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall grew up in New York and now lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several award-winning poetry collections.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781566892209
ISBN-10: 1566892201
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 150 x 224 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Coffee House Press
Colecția Coffee House Press
ISBN-10: 1566892201
Pagini: 124
Dimensiuni: 150 x 224 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: Coffee House Press
Colecția Coffee House Press
Notă biografică
Born in 1936 to Jewish parents who emigrated from Iraq and Syria, Jack Marshall grew up in New York and lives in California. He is the author of the memoir From Baghdad to Brooklyn and several poetry collections that have received the PEN Center USA Award, two Northern California Book Awards, and a nomination from the National Book Critics Circle.
Descriere
Aging, 1940s Brooklyn, and the Israeli / Palestinian conflict haunt these elegiac, passionate poems.