Self-Portrait with Expletives Poems |
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Author:
| Clark, Kevin |
Series title: | Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Series Award Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-8071-3645-4 |
Publication Date: | May 2010 |
Publisher: | Pleiades Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $16.95 |
Book Description:
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Divided into four sections, Self-Portrait with Expletives is a book of twenty poems demonstrating the way some American men self-consciously pursue love, friendship and art. In an age when certain heterosexual male behavioral traits are compulsory, even though obviously foolish and self-defeating, the book's language and imagery often press against conventional decorum.Frank and humiliating, velocitous and lyric, erotic and confessional, the book is a personal and public portrayal...
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Divided into four sections, Self-Portrait with Expletives is a book of twenty poems demonstrating the way some American men self-consciously pursue love, friendship and art. In an age when certain heterosexual male behavioral traits are compulsory, even though obviously foolish and self-defeating, the book's language and imagery often press against conventional decorum.Frank and humiliating, velocitous and lyric, erotic and confessional, the book is a personal and public portrayal of what it means to be male in the twenty-first century.