Lapse Americana - Paperback

FormatBook

Language English

ISBN-13 / SKU 9781935520719

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by Benjamin Myers (Author)

The twin ravens, Thought and Memory, of Norse myth are reborn as American crows to fly an interweaving pattern or remembering and forgetting through the pages of LAPSE AMERICANA. Born out of the poet's childhood during the Pax Americana and situated within the war and economic lapse of the new century, these poems explore memory and amnesia, faith and doubt, presence and absence. They are rooted in rural, working class experience as well as in the poetic traditions of America, Europe, and China. By turns formal and jazzy, confessional and coy, these poems speak of the universal by focusing on the particular, insisting with simultaneous emphasis upon the value of remembering and of embracing forgetfulness.

Number of Pages: 116

Dimensions: 0.28 x 9 x 6 IN

Publication Date: March 15, 2013

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