Dyer's Thistle
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In Dyer's Thistle, Peter Balakian writes a severe and sensual poetry that unfolds discoveries of myth and history. He creates a landscape in which the private self is often inundated by messages of global suffering and must confront an American spiritual predicament. Inventing a language of condensation and leaps, Balakian probes a contemporary notion of the sublime as it oscillates between terror and beauty. In poems like "The Oriental Rug" and "American...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0887482333
ISBN13:9780887482335
Release Date:April 1996
Publisher:Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Length:80 Pages
Dimensions:0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"
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