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Troubled Lovers in History: A Sequence of Poems
Paperback
Series: Polymer Science and Engineering
ISBN13: 9780814250150
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Jan 1 1999
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.49 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.01
Language: English
Troubled Lovers in History demonstrates an exhilarating range: from the briefest of lyrics to rich and multipartite narrative adventures in exotic realms; from a comic monologue spoken in immigrant Yinglish to a soulful elegy set in San Antonio's Pearl Beer brewery plant; from Martian invaders, through polar explorers, to all of us busy inflicting words with edges on those we love.
Goldbarth sets his unflinching study of individual hope and grief against the backdrop of history: the travels of Marco Polo; Bertha and Wilhelm Rontgen's discovery of X-rays; an 1800 battle twixt Dragon Sam, the great Exhaler of Gouts of Amazing Flame . . . and Liquid Dan, the Living Geyser.
From the night stars to the little starring parts we all play every day, Troubled Lovers in History takes us into the text of our dreams and despairs, as witnessed by the writer whom Joyce Carol Oates called a poet of remarkable gifts-a dazzling virtuoso who can break your heart.
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