| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 75 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Pitt poetry series
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Pitt poetry series.
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| Contents |
Intro; Contents; Not Once; Hypocrite Shoe; The Rise of the Colored Empires; The Brigadier and the Golf Widow; This Is Cinerama; Home by the Sea; Skip to My Lou; Compensation; At Broad Channel; At Steepletop; When the World's on Fire; On the Cooling Board; Victory Field; Why Bother?; Via Negativa; The Lemon Ice King; Stagger Lee; Ommie Wise; The Conjurer; An Offering of Steam; In the Pines; Motherless Children; 4-A; The Tenant of Fire : a sequence; 1. Hawk-Man; 2. Goodbye, Piccadilly; 3. The Curtain; 4. Duke Ellington, Live at the Aquacade; 5. Nothing Beats a Fair |
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6. A Gun to the Heart of the CityNotes; Acknowledgments |
| Summary |
The Tenant of Fire is about Queens, NY--its history, public and personal, real and imagined. Many of the people who populate this book--Irish Catholics, Italian-Americans--were once considered ethnic but now fall wholly under the banner of white. And from their anxieties a man like Donald Trump emerges. Born and raised in Queens, Trump is both the product and purveyor of a localized nativist politic. The young white speaker of these poems works to record his parents' and neighbors', both white and of color, and his own attempts at navigating a shifting landscape. In poems on the homecoming of Vietnam vets, or the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, or the firebombing of Malcolm X's house, The Tenant of Fire explores how and why the plurality of a place like Queens, where now nearly two hundred languages are spoken, is viewed as a threat to national security. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry. |
| Chronological Term |
21st century |
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2000-2099 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Poetry.
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
9780822986911 (electronic book) |
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0822986914 (electronic book) |
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9780822965909 |
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