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Strange Flesh Paperback - 2008
by William Logan
A new collection from a poet acclaimed for his immaculatecraft and impressive range
William Logan'S dark, intense, muscular versehas long unsettled some of the standard agreements of Americanpoetry. His eighth collection finds its home in the elsewhere, in thevarious small towns and ancient cities where the poet has felt someshimmering presence of the past. Logan uncovers the memory of theLeviathan in the Massachusetts fishing village where he was raised,the coupling of gods in Venice at the millennium, and signs of theFlood in Texas. He explores places familiar and unfamiliar, whethertenting on the plains with General Custer or seeing a horrific visionbehind the Blaschkas' famous glass models of the invertebrates. Theinhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah followed strange flesh; in thecollapsing real-estate market of the past, this master of formality aswell as form discovers the sins of the flesh that still haunt us.
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William Logan?S dark, intense, muscular verse has long unsettled some of the standard agreements of American poetry. His eighth collection finds its home in the elsewhere, in the various small towns and ancient cities where the poet has felt some shimmering presence of the past. Logan uncovers the memory of the Leviathan in the Massachusetts fishing village where he was raised, the coupling of gods in Venice at the millennium, and signs of the Flood in Texas. He explores places familiar and unfamiliar, whether tenting on the plains with General Custer or seeing a horrific vision behind the Blaschkas? famous glass models of the invertebrates. The inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah followed strange flesh; in the collapsing real-estate market of the past, this master of formality as well as form discovers the sins of the flesh that still haunt us.
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- Title Strange Flesh
- Author William Logan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First edition
- Pages 93
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group
- Date 2008-09-30
- ISBN 9780143114468 / 0143114468
- Weight 0.27 lbs (0.12 kg)
- Dimensions 8.4 x 5.46 x 0.3 in (21.34 x 13.87 x 0.76 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Library of Congress subjects American poetry
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2008003514
- Dewey Decimal Code 811.54
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