Portrait in a Spoon

(Part of the James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series)

by James Cummins

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By turns comic and poignant, the poems in Portrait in a Spoon explore the uses and abuses of language as it intersects the uses and abuses of power. Taking George Eliot's observation that even Milton, looking at himself in a spoon, would have to "submit to have the facial angle of a bumpkin," James Cummins investigates the question of identity--the illusions we sustain, the passions we conceal, and the stories that surround both.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1570031924

ISBN13:9781570031922

Release Date:June 1997

Publisher:University of South Carolina Press

Length:79 Pages

Weight:0.26 lbs.

Dimensions:0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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American Literature Literature Poetry

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