Beautiful False Things: Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780802136572)

This tenth collection of Irving Feldman's poems extends what readers and critics have long recognized as a body of work singular in its lyric, visionary, even prophetic intensity; its extravagant wit; its powerful storytelling; and its variety of voices and range of feeling - playful, tender, ardent, biting, enthralled. Here, among the major poems of Beautiful False Things, the stand-up comic Larry Sunrise of "Funny Bones" duels with death in Florida; in "Oedipus Host," Oedipus arrives from his millennia-long trek to host a TV talk show; and the plucky feminist heroine of "Heavenly Muse" visits yet another barely worthy male poet. In the tragicomic title poem, "translation" comes to stand for the dilemmas of expression in a culture that sucks up language and spews it back.


Author: Irving Feldman
ISBN-10: 0802136575
ISBN-13: 9780802136572
Publisher: Grove Press
Language: English
Published: 02/04/2000
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.28lbs
Size: 8.19h x 5.44w x 0.32d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 02/07/2000 pg. 70