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Motive and Opportunity

Motive and Opportunity

Vangelisti, Paul

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General Poetry

ISBN10: 1848617151
ISBN13: 9781848617155
Publisher: Shearsman Books
Published: Sep 18 2020
Pages: 80
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Poetry. California Interest. MOTIVE AND OPPORTUNITY is principally located in Los Angeles, where the poet has lived and worked since 1968. The five pieces collected here are various attempts at poetic language trying to settle in this metropolitan sprawl of contradictions. Or as Carey McWilliams called it in his seminal Southern California: an Island on the Land, very much a city that refuses to know itself. From Driving Platitudes and The Grid, both written while driving across the seemingly endless metropolis, to the most recent Motive & Opportunity, a detective poem, this book moves around Vangelisti's almost native city, leaving a trail of affections and casual encounters.

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