Eternity & oranges /

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Author / Creator:Bakken, Christopher, 1967- author.
Imprint:Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2016]
©2016
Description:1 online resource (1 PDF (viii, 75 pages))
Language:English
Series:Pitt poetry series
Pitt poetry series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11253653
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ISBN:9780822981282
0822981289
9780822964049
082296404X
Notes:Poems.
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Summary:"We'd not slept in days, or else we were/ still sleeping--who 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."
Other form:Print version: 082296404X 9780822964049