Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems by Kenneth Fearing - ISBN: 9781931082570
Hardcover
From The Library of America, three new titles in the exciting series that takes a fresh look at America‘s most enduring poetry. National Poetry Month brings three new titles—brilliant selections of John Greenleaf Whittier, Kenneth Fearing, and Muriel Rukeyser—as The Library of Am…

Kenneth Fearing: Selected Poems

(American Poets Project #8)

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  • Hardcover

    230 pages

  • Release Date

    30 March 2004

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Summary

Poet, journalist, and crime novelist, Kenneth Fearing wrote poems filled with the jargon of advertising and radio broadcasts and tabloid headlines, sidewalk political oratory, and the pop tunes on the jukebox. Seeking out what he called “the new and complex harmonies … of a strange and still more complex age,” he evoked the jitters of the Depression and the war years in a voice alternately sardonic and melancholy, and depicted a fragmenting urban world bombarded by restless desires and unnerv…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781931082570
ISBN-10:193108257X
Author:Kenneth Fearing
Publisher:The Library of America
Imprint:The Library of America
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:230
Release Date:30 March 2004
Weight:240g
Dimensions:196mm x 122mm x 15mm
Series:American Poets Project
About The Author

Kenneth Fearing

Robert Politois a poet, biographer, and critic. His books includeDoubles,A Reader’s Guide to James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover, andSavage Art- A Biography of Jim Thompson, for which he received the National Book Critics Circle Award. He directs the Graduate Writing Program at New School University in New York City.

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