In this Book
- The Wall
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of Pittsburgh Press
- Series: Pitt Poetry Series
summary
The Wall is a poetic exploration—across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical—of the U.S.-Mexican wall dividing the two civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin, Warsaw, etc.) in history, and of the act of separating people by ideology, class, race, and other subterfuges. It is an indictment of hateful political rhetoric. In the spirit of Virgil’s Aeneid and Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Master, it gives voice in symphonic fashion to an assortment of participants (immigrants, border patrol, soldiers, activists, presidents, people dead and alive) involved in the debate on walls. It brings in elements of literature and pop culture, fashion and cuisine. Poetry becomes a tool to explore raw human emotions in all its extremes.
Table of Contents
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- I. The Edge of the Kingdom
- pp. 1-38
- II. Who Whoes the Who?
- pp. 39-62
- III. The Opposite of Indifference
- pp. 63-94
- IV. My Sweet Enemy
- pp. 95-124
Additional Information
ISBN
9780822983354
Related ISBN(s)
9780822965282
MARC Record
OCLC
1032375604
Pages
134
Launched on MUSE
2018-05-13
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018