| Author: | David Wojahn | ISBN: | 9780822979326 |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press | Publication: | May 29, 1990 |
| Imprint: | University of Pittsburgh Press | Language: | English |
| Author: | David Wojahn |
| ISBN: | 9780822979326 |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Publication: | May 29, 1990 |
| Imprint: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Language: | English |
David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly sonnets, in which rock and roll music is a strange, kaleidoscopic mirror of recent American history. Combining rhapsodic homage, grim humor, human folly, and tragedy, these poems are like nothing else in contemporary poetry.
David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly sonnets, in which rock and roll music is a strange, kaleidoscopic mirror of recent American history. Combining rhapsodic homage, grim humor, human folly, and tragedy, these poems are like nothing else in contemporary poetry.
