Christopher Bakken

Eternity & Oranges (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

We'd not slept in days, or else we were/ still sleepingwho could tell?" someone asks in the opening poem of Eternity & Oranges. The voices we encounter in this book speak on the verge of disappearance, from places marked by disintegration and terror. Christopher Bakken's poems are acts of conjuring. They move from the real political landscapes of Greece, Italy, and Romania, into more surreal spaces where history comes alive and the summoned dead speak. In the formally diverse long poem, "Kouros/Kore," but also in this book's terse and harrowing dream songs, Bakken writes with devastating force, at every turn "Guilty of the crime of praise" while "begging for an antidote to beauty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822981282
• Artikelnr.: 44907793

Autorenporträt

Christopher Bakken is department chair and Frederick F. Seeley Professor of English at Allegheny College. He is the author of the poetry collections After Greece and Goat Funeral. He is also co-translator of The Lions' Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios, and the author of Honey, Olives, Octopus: Adventures at the Greek Table.