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Long Poem in the Age of Twitter and the Being Here Site of the Poetic

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Pages:360
ISBN:0-7734-1603-X
978-0-7734-1603-1
Price:$239.95

Nominated for the 2012 Society of Midland Authors Award
A monograph concerning the state of epic poetry in an age of shorter attention spans.

Reviews

“The book moves through swerves, weaves, and clashes of these genres, all driven by a formidable learning.” - Frank Menchaca, Gale Learning and Research Solutions, Cengage Learning

“A lone genius, a huge bombshell of gravity” – Prof. Willis Barnstone, Indiana University

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. The Setting

Chapter 2. Might be Sattiday (Part 1 of An I Fractured between Saturday and Sunday)

Chapter 3. Stocktaking and Looking Ahead Toward China (Part 2 of An I Fractured between Saturday and Sunday)

Chapter 4. A Critique: Anabase Now (Part 3 of An I Fractured between Saturday and Sunday)

Chapter 5. Sunday Morning Post Sunday Morning (Part 4 of An I Fractured between Saturday and Sunday)

Chapter 6. Retrospect

The Being Here Site of the Poetic