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Luster: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium

Luster: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium

Bogen, Don

Paperback

Series: Wesleyan Poetry

General Poetry

ISBN10: 0819566500
ISBN13: 9780819566508
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: Nov 3 2003
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.28 Width: 4.86 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

Vivid exploration of what the world of objects reveals about our lives.

Don Bogen's latest volume, Luster, takes on everything from bullhorns to the cultivation of olive trees in poems that are sharp-edged and open to surprise. They capture not just things themselves but the essential contexts--history, power, the personal and the social--that give them meaning. The stylistic dexterity and range of approaches here make the book as rich as the world it engages. Luster includes evocations of place and memory, character studies of figures from Coleridge to Tarzan, a verse epistle, and an extended meditation on machines in our daily lives, all within an overarching vision. From racehorses to waterwheels to great cities, Bogen illuminates things that go, in both their dynamism and their inevitable decay. Luster traces the sheen of human activity that clings to the world around us: imperfect, irrevocably marred by time, but always gleaming.

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