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War Bird
David Gewanter
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Description for War Bird
Paperback. A book of poems that takes us on a journey through wartime America, showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities. Series: Phoenix Poets. Num Pages: 80 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 6. Weight in Grams: 118.
From Three at 4:43, and here comes my friend, limping on his heavy boot, the heel come off. A cobbler's shop appears, and I buy the black nails, the dwarf's hammer, glue and strapping. I work hard on it, bending there until he speaks and walks on. But as he is dead, his voice and step make 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 ambitions of our private fantasies - all these collide ... Read more
From Three at 4:43, and here comes my friend, limping on his heavy boot, the heel come off. A cobbler's shop appears, and I buy the black nails, the dwarf's hammer, glue and strapping. I work hard on it, bending there until he speaks and walks on. But as he is dead, his voice and step make 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 ambitions of our private fantasies - all these collide ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Series
Phoenix Poets
Number of Pages
88
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226289786
SKU
V9780226289786
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About David Gewanter
David Gewanter is professor of English at Georgetown University. He is coeditor of Robert Lowell's Collected Poems and the author of In the Belly and The Sleep of Reason, the latter two published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for War Bird
"The Phoenix Poets list contains a number of poets currently on my list of favorites. This is a strong, vital series that has given voice to some of the best voices in American poetry today." - Billy Collins "A strong collection from a writer who seems to possess that most curious and necessary of literary attributes - a moral vision." ... Read more