Asphalt Georgics : Poetry

Name: Asphalt Georgics
Brand: New Directions Publishing Corporation
SKU: 9780811209380
Price: 1100 KES
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ISBN: 9780811209380

by Hayden Carruth

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Format Paperback / softback

ISBN-10 0811209385

ISBN-13 9780811209380

Publisher New Directions Publishing Corporation

Imprint New Directions Publishing Corporation

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jul 24th, 1985

Print length 75 Pages

Weight 114 grams

Dimensions 20.30 x 13.20 x 0.80 cms

Product Classification: Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: poetry & poets

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America’s paved-over landscape dotted with its oases of shopping malls and franchise strips is the setting for Hayden Carruth’s Asphalt Georgics, a new collection of thirteen poems in the common speech of Upstate New York. Here are the voices of Charlie Spaid, talking of the death of his landlady, Marge; of Septic Tanck, musing on his own peculiar name; of old Capper Kaplinski, still watching the girls pass by; of Art and Poll, back in the old neighborhood. What they tell about their lives is hardly what they themselves would ever expect to read in the pages of a book of poetry. Yet to capture the rhythms of their very colloquial language, Hayden Carruth has invented a new verse form, his Georgics-quatrains in strict syllables and rhyme, though with no accentual pattern––which achieve by their special artifice a classic and earthy elegance.

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