The city, our city
The city, our city By Miller, Wayne
2011 | 104 Pages | ISBN: 1571314458 | PDF | 2 MB
2011 | 104 Pages | ISBN: 1571314458 | PDF | 2 MB
A William Carlos William Award Finalist for 2012A Kansas City Star Top Book of 2012A Library Journal Top Winter Poetry PickA series of semi-mythologized, symbolic narratives interspersed with dramatic monologues, the poems collected in The City, Our City showcase the voice of a young poet striking out, dramatically, emphatically, to stake his claim on the City.” It is an unnamed, crowded place where the human questions and observations found in almost any citypast, present, and futurering out with urgency. These poemsin turn elegiac, celebratory, haunting, grave, and joyfulgive hum to our modern experience, to those caught up in the City’s immensity, and announce the arrival of a major new contemporary poet.