Applause
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Applause is a collection of poems about joy and dread--mirroring the extremes of the contemporary American experience. Joy is defined in motherhood, self-conscious love, friendship--while dread is described through an accelerating sense of doom, and the failure of nearly all prescriptive political solutions to the world's problems. The overall mood is one of bravado in the face of ruin--the metaphor of applause, standing there clapping, well-intentioned...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0822954176
ISBN13:9780822954170
Release Date:April 1989
Publisher:University of Pittsburgh Press
Length:64 Pages
Weight:0.23 lbs.
Dimensions:0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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