Lunch /
A direct and moving account of a young man's life in a time of plague
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Hanover, NH :
Wesleyan University Press/University Press of New England,
c2000
Hanover, NH : Wesleyan University Press ; University Press of New England, ©2000 [Middleton, Conn.] : Hanover, NH : c2000 [Middletown, Conn.] : Hanover, NH : c2000 Hanover, NH : [2000] |
| Series: | Wesleyan poetry
Wesleyan poetry |
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| Summary: | A direct and moving account of a young man's life in a time of plague Poetry. Gay/Lesbian Studies. The richly textured poems in "Lunch", a companion volume to D.A. Powell's acclaimed debut collection, TEA, tell the story of a life -- like a conversation stretched out over many lunch breaks. Hailed by Forrest Gander as "formally innovative, disjunctive but tender and always emotionally expressive", the poems are both masticatibly small and immensely satisfying. The life in question is bifurcated by the diagnosis of HIV; "time splits", in these layered and evocative poems, as the poet's memories of childhood and adolescence are fractured by the knowledge of adulthood |
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| Item Description: | Poems This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | 62 p. : ill. ; 23 cm 62 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm xi, 62 p. : ill. ; 23 cm xi, 62 p. : ill. ; 24 cm xi, 62 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0819564265 (alk. paper) 0819564265 0819564273 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0819564273 9780819564269 (alk. paper) 9780819564276 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780819564276 |