Lapse Americana (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781935520719)

The twin ravens, Thought and Memory, of Norse myth are reborn as American crows to fly an interweaving pattern or remembering and forgetting through the pages of LAPSE AMERICANA. Born out of the poet's childhood during the Pax Americana and situated within the war and economic lapse of the new century, these poems explore memory and amnesia, faith and doubt, presence and absence. They are rooted in rural, working class experience as well as in the poetic traditions of America, Europe, and China. By turns formal and jazzy, confessional and coy, these poems speak of the universal by focusing on the particular, insisting with simultaneous emphasis upon the value of remembering and of embracing forgetfulness.

Author: Benjamin Myers
ISBN-10: 1935520717
ISBN-13: 9781935520719
Publisher: NYQ Books
Language: English
Published: 03/15/2013
Pages: 116
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.41lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d