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Circus Maximus
David Starkey
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Description for Circus Maximus
Paperback. Tour the sites of Rome with David Starkey's garrulous new guide to the Italian Renaissance in fifty pocket-sized poems. Num Pages: 96 pages, B&W illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 101 x 8. Weight in Grams: 100.
What would the Son-of-Man get up to in present-day Rome? Would he wander the Galleria Borghese, loiter outside nightclubs, ride trams, tip accordionists? How would Keats feel about the neon Dior sign that flashes away above the Spanish Steps? Are there ways to avoid Vespas on the sidewalks? Rules for carving a Pieta? And exactly which painter is responsible for the ugliest Jesus in the history of Western Art? A tour of Rome like no other, the poems of Circus Maximus ask these questions and more. Join David Starkey as he shines a torch on the sights, sounds, mysteries ... Read more
What would the Son-of-Man get up to in present-day Rome? Would he wander the Galleria Borghese, loiter outside nightclubs, ride trams, tip accordionists? How would Keats feel about the neon Dior sign that flashes away above the Spanish Steps? Are there ways to avoid Vespas on the sidewalks? Rules for carving a Pieta? And exactly which painter is responsible for the ugliest Jesus in the history of Western Art? A tour of Rome like no other, the poems of Circus Maximus ask these questions and more. Join David Starkey as he shines a torch on the sights, sounds, mysteries ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
69
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781927428207
SKU
V9781927428207
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About David Starkey
David Starkey is the former Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, California, and Director of the Creative Writing program at Santa Barbara City College. Among his poetry collections are Adventures of the Minor Poet (Artamo Press, 2007), Ways of Being Dead: New and Selected Poems (Artamo, 2006), David Starkey's Greatest Hits (Pudding House, 2002), and A Few Things You Should Know ... Read more
Reviews for Circus Maximus
"In Circus Maximus, David Starkey wanders through contemporary Rome to be arrested time and again by the intensities of vision and faith of its Catholic art. We have here ... moments of the extraordinary hidden within the hurly-burly of the ephemeral everyday. And this he renders with great charm, alertness and silken intelligence."
Irving Feldman "In clean skillfully written stanzas, ... Read more
Irving Feldman "In clean skillfully written stanzas, ... Read more