In this Book
- Limousine, Midnight Blue
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: Red Hen Press
summary
This sequence of fifty 14-line poems uses the Zapruder Film of President Kennedy's murder as a prism through which to view America and the world. Refracted rays touch on crime and punishment; guilt and responsibility; charisma and love; the dying victim's experience during the stretched-out seconds of his violation and death; and the dark world of war profiteering, narco-traffic, and deceit where the facts of power determine history. Epic tradition (e.g., Homer, Dante, Milton) shares these pages with science, religion, and popular culture, now funny and now horrifying. Limousine, Midnight Blue is a haunted book about a haunted film of an event whose hungry ghosts still walk the American unconscious, rattling their chains louder every year.
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Additional Information
ISBN
9781597091862
Related ISBN(s)
9781597091282
MARC Record
OCLC
835771323
Pages
80
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No