The Magic Kingdom (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781625579409)

Poetry. Russel Swensen's MAGIC KINGDOM is a glass globe, shattered like the one Charles Foster Kane let fall, a sphere of obsession in which the past is a fugue of vanished music and desolate mornings, glamorous and desparate gestures in a city gone liquid and dream-quick with cocaine and sexual promise. This poet knows from the beginning that intoxication ends, and beloved companions scatter and perish; such dicey kingdoms don't come again. But it is his work, his lament and his privilege to place the unfinished past at the center of his bristling, troubled art.--Mark Doty

Author: Russel Swensen
ISBN-10: 1625579403
ISBN-13: 9781625579409
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Language: English
Published: 04/30/2016
Pages: 121
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.30d