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The Fugitive Self: New and Selected Poems
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ISBN13: 9780979745096
Publisher: Etruscan Press
Published: Nov 1 2009
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.62 Width: 6.35 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
The Fugitive Self is a tribute to a distinguished career spanning fifty years in American letters. At once meditative, whimsical, and hard-hitting, it illuminates the spiritual cost of American expansion.
Nothing we'd been counting on
all the time we'd waited
was waiting when we arrived.
Only more waiting--
John Wheatcroft is the author of twenty books in three genres, a WWII combat veteran, and professor emeritus at Bucknell University. He has a well-known following--Peter Balakian, Bruce Smith, Tom Gardner, Betsy Sholl--who believes his work is seminal to understanding violence now and in the second half of the twentieth century.
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