Luster: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780819566508)

Don Bogen's latest volume, Luster, takes on everything from bullhorns to the cultivation of olive trees in poems that are sharp-edged and open to surprise. They capture not just things themselves but the essential contexts-history, power, the personal and the social-that give them meaning. The stylistic dexterity and range of approaches here make the book as rich as the world it engages. Luster includes evocations of place and memory, character studies of figures from Coleridge to Tarzan, a verse epistle, and an extended meditation on machines in our daily lives, all within an overarching vision. From racehorses to waterwheels to great cities, Bogen illuminates "things that go," in both their dynamism and their inevitable decay. Luster traces the sheen of human activity that clings to the world around us: imperfect, irrevocably marred by time, but always gleaming.

Author: Don Bogen
ISBN-10: 0819566500
ISBN-13: 9780819566508
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2003
Pages: 88
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.28h x 4.86w x 0.28d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2020 pg. 66