Rebels (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781590211144)

Poets have been responding in lyric to the bloody aspects of war since Homer's era, and the American Civil War, in its scale and ferocity, was unquestionably one of the bloodiest. In Rebels, acclaimed poet Jeff Mann ranges the battlefields where such destruction occurred: famous battles like Malvern Hill, Fredericksburg, Gettysburg, and Cold Harbor, and those lesser known, such as Scary Creek and Cloyd's Farm. In his travels, Mann muses on Southern heritage and the sufferings of the Confederate people, both soldiers and civilians. As he did in his popular Civil War-era novels, Purgatory and Salvation, Mann "queers" the War as few other writers have, examining the conflict from a gay man's perspective. In this fine edition, several of Mann's poems have been illustrated by artists, making this volume unique in the fields of both Civil War studies and contemporary poetry.

Author: Jeff Mann
ISBN-10: 1590211146
ISBN-13: 9781590211144
Publisher: Lethe Press
Language: English
Published: 04/12/2015
Pages: 176
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d