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Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems

2004-03-30 Poetry
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Release : 2004-03-30
Genre : Poetry
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Book Synopsis Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems by : Kenneth Fearing

Download or read book Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems written by Kenneth Fearing. This book was released on 2004-03-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, journalist, and crime novelist, Kenneth Fearing wrote poems filled with the jargon of advertising and radio broadcasts and tabloid headlines, sidewalk political oratory, and the pop tunes on the jukebox. Seeking out what he called “the new and complex harmonies . . . of a strange and still more complex age,” he evoked the jitters of the Depression and the war years in a voice alternately sardonic and melancholy, and depicted a fragmenting urban world bombarded by restless desires and unnerving fears. But, in the words of editor Robert Polito, “Fearing’s poems carry no whiff of the curio or relic. If anything, his poems . . . insinuated an emerging media universe that poetry still only fitfully acknowledges.” This new selection foregrounds the energy and originality of Fearing’s prophetic poetry, with its constant formal experimenting and its singular note of warning: “We must be prepared for anything, anything, anything.” As a chronicler of mass culture and its discontents, Fearing is a strangely solitary figure who cannot be ignored. About the American Poets Project Elegantly designed in compact editions, printed on acid-free paper, and textually authoritative, the American Poets Project makes available the full range of the American poetic accomplishment, selected and introduced by today’s most discerning poets and critics.

Collected Poems of Kenneth Fearing

1977 Poetry
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Release : 1977
Genre : Poetry
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Download or read book Collected Poems of Kenneth Fearing written by Kenneth Fearing. This book was released on 1977. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Clark Gifford's Body

2006-10-17 Fiction
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Release : 2006-10-17
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 820/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Clark Gifford's Body written by Kenneth Fearing. This book was released on 2006-10-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in Print After Fifty Years Clark Gifford? A cipher. A disaffected, vaguely idealistic politician in a nameless media-driven modern state where representative politics has dwindled to the corrupt transaction of business as usual and a new foreign war is always breaking out. One night Gifford and his followers seize some radio stations and broadcast a call for freedom—a rebellion that is immediately put down by the government and whose motive will remain forever obscure. Even so, it leads to twenty years of war. A paranoid tour de force of political noir, Clark Gifford’s Body skips back and forth in time, interspersing newspaper clippings and court transcripts with the reactions and reminiscences of the politicians, generals, businessmen, journalists, waiters, and soldiers who double as the actors and the chorus in a drama over which, finally, they have no control. Who here is leading? Who is being led? Fearing’s novel is a pseudo-documentary of a world given over to pseudo-politics and pseudo-events, a prophetic glimpse of the future as a poisonous fog. “I have not developed the habit of reading thrillers, but I have read enough of them to know that from now on Mr. Fearing is my man.”–The New Yorker

The Big Clock

2006-07-18 Fiction
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Release : 2006-07-18
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book The Big Clock written by Kenneth Fearing. This book was released on 2006-07-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic of American noir, part murder mystery and part black comedy, set in dark corners of corporate New York City. George Stroud is a hard-drinking, tough-talking, none-too-scrupulous writer for a New York media conglomerate that bears a striking resemblance to Time, Inc. in the heyday of Henry Luce. One day, before heading home to his wife in the suburbs, Stroud has a drink with Pauline, the beautiful girlfriend of his boss, Earl Janoth. Things happen. The next day Stroud escorts Pauline home, leaving her off at the corner just as Janoth returns from a trip. The day after that, Pauline is found murdered in her apartment. Janoth knows there was one witness to his entry into Pauline’s apartment on the night of the murder; he knows that man must have been the man Pauline was with before he got back; but he doesn’t know who he was. Janoth badly wants to get his hands on that man, and he picks one of his most trusted employees to track him down: George Stroud, who else? How does a man escape from himself? No book has ever dramatized that question to more perfect effect than The Big Clock, a masterpiece of American noir.

Pluriverse

2009 Literary Criticism
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Release : 2009
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 092/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Pluriverse by : Ernesto Cardenal

Download or read book Pluriverse written by Ernesto Cardenal. This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive selection of poems in English by Latin America's legendary poet-activist, Ernesto Cardenal.

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