Opcit at Large by Barr, John

Opcit at Large (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781597092593)

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Opcit at Large by Barr, John

Opcit at Large

$14.95
Opcit at Large by Barr, John

Opcit at Large

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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The Adventures of Ibn Opcit is a two-volume work by John Barr, first president of The Poetry Foundation. Grace, the first volume of this mock epic, is the master song of Ibn Opcit, a Caribbean gardener/poet condemned to die by torture. In a series of jailhouse monologues we hear him descant on justice, on creation, on America, on death and on life after death. In book two, Opcit at Large, the poet pushes back on his oppressors in three adventures. Like Virgil in the Inferno he visits the afterworld of reincarnation in The Afterdammit he struggles to survive as poet laureate to Africa's newest President for Life in Opcit en Afrique he orbits earth as The Last Cosmonaut on the eve of the fall of the Soviet Union. He comes home with the dignity and strength of one who has survived and prevailed.

Author: John Barr
ISBN-10: 1597092592
ISBN-13: 9781597092593
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Language: English
Published: 01/15/2013
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d

Review Citation(s):
Foreword 02/26/2013
By John Barr
By John Barr
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The poems of John Barr have appeared in many magazines and have been published in seven previous collections: The War Zone (1989), Natural Wonders (1991), The Dial Painters (1994), Centennial Suite (1997), all by Warwick Press; The Hundred Fathom Curve (1997) and Grace (1999), by Story Line Press; and The Hundred Fathom Curve: New & Collected Poems (2011) by Red Hen Press. Barr has served on the boards of the Poetry Society of America, Yaddo, and Bennington College, the latter as chairman. He has taught in the graduate writing program of Sarah Lawrence College, and was appointed in 2004 the first president of The Poetry Foundation, publisher of Poetry magazine. He lives in Chicago and New York. The Adventures of Ibn Opcit is his eighth collection.

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