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First edition. |
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1 online resource |
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Summary |
How does it feel to experience another city' To stand beneath tall buildings, among the countless faces of a crowd' To attempt to be heard above the din' The poems of Another City travel inward and outward at once: into moments of self-reproach and grace, and to those of disassociation and belonging. From experiences defined by an urban landscape'a thwarted customer at the door of a shuttered bookstore in Crete, a chance encounter with a might-have-been lover in Copenhagen'to the streets themselves, where 'an alley was a comma in the agony's grammar,' in David Keplinger's hands startling images collide and mingle like bodies on a busy thoroughfare. Yet Another City deftly spans not only the physical space of global cities, but more intangible and intimate distances: between birth and death, father and son, past and present, metaphor and reality. In these poems, our entry into the world is when 'the wound, called loneliness, / opens,' and our voyage out of it is through a foreign but not entirely unfamiliar constellations of cities: Cherbourg, Manila, Port-au-Prince. A moving, haunting atlas to worlds both interior and exterior. |
Local Note |
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Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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Chronological Term |
21st century |
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1900-2099 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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Other Form: |
Print version: 9781571314864 1571314865 (DLC) 2017050712 (OCoLC)1007067691 |
ISBN |
9781571319500 (electronic book) |
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1571319506 (electronic book) |
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9781571314864 |
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1571314865 |
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