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Sufficiency of the Actual
Kevin Stein
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Description for Sufficiency of the Actual
Paperback. Poems reflecting the rich panoply of personal and public life in modern America, from the Poet Laureate of Illinois Series: Illinois Poetry. Num Pages: 104 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 156 x 8. Weight in Grams: 176.
In this ambitious collection, Kevin Stein enters the volatile intersection of private lives and larger public history. In poems variously formal and experimental, improvisational and narrative, wisely silly and playfully forlorn, Stein renders the human carnival flexed across the tattooed bulk of “history’s bicep.”
In this ambitious collection, Kevin Stein enters the volatile intersection of private lives and larger public history. In poems variously formal and experimental, improvisational and narrative, wisely silly and playfully forlorn, Stein renders the human carnival flexed across the tattooed bulk of “history’s bicep.”
Musical and refreshingly unaffected, Stein’s poems yoke the domains of high and low art. His poems address subjects by turns surprising, edgy, and humorous. They offer musings on the Slinky and the atomic bomb, elegies for a miscarried pregnancy and the late physicist Edward Teller, reflections on night-shift factory work and President Eisenhower’s golf caddy, and ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
104
Condition
New
Series
Illinois Poetry
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252076008
SKU
V9780252076008
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About Kevin Stein
Kevin Stein is Poet Laureate of Illinois and Caterpillar Professor of English at Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois. His previous publications include American Ghost Roses, Chance Ransom, and several other poetry collections, as well as two books of literary criticism and the poetry anthology Illinois Voices.
Reviews for Sufficiency of the Actual
"Stein writes about ordinary objects in unremarkable lives—lawn mowers and Dodge pickups and TV sets and baseball caps—but upon that humble stuff, he sheds the golden radiance of close attention. His poems are delivered in everyday language, which means that when the epiphanies come, they pack a punch."
Chicago Tribune "A self-deprecating societal evaluation that has a tendency to hug and ... Read more
Chicago Tribune "A self-deprecating societal evaluation that has a tendency to hug and ... Read more