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Provoked in Venice: The Rider Quintet, vol. 3
Wesleyan University Press
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Description for Provoked in Venice: The Rider Quintet, vol. 3
paperback. The remarkable third volume in a trilogy that includes the award-winning Rider and Millennium Hotel. Series: Wesleyan Poetry. Num Pages: 212 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 6. Weight in Grams: 295. Keywords: "Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - By Period - 20th Century,Subjects - Poetry, Drama & Criticism - Poetry - World - American - 20th Century"
In these powerfully conceived and understated poems, Mark Rudman asks how culture is created and shared, and how historical events and figures are known through direct experiences of place. The title Provoked in Venice alludes to the structure of the book, wherein a trip to Italy becomes the catalyst for a meditative view of the convergence of imagination, history, and the 20th-century attempt to recover them both. The narrator enters the maze of Venice like a contemporary Dante guided only by the voice of the "rider"-interlocuter. Rich in allusions to literature, film, and the past, this final volume of ... Read more
In these powerfully conceived and understated poems, Mark Rudman asks how culture is created and shared, and how historical events and figures are known through direct experiences of place. The title Provoked in Venice alludes to the structure of the book, wherein a trip to Italy becomes the catalyst for a meditative view of the convergence of imagination, history, and the 20th-century attempt to recover them both. The narrator enters the maze of Venice like a contemporary Dante guided only by the voice of the "rider"-interlocuter. Rich in allusions to literature, film, and the past, this final volume of ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Like New
Publisher
Wesleyan University Press
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Series
Wesleyan Poetry
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819563545
SKU
KHS0056001
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