| Description |
60 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Series |
The national poetry series |
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National poetry series.
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| Contents |
The Way He Breaks -- Hoods -- The House on Lyons Avenue -- Chingada -- Black Girl on the Overpass -- Something Faithful -- Justice -- Psoriasis -- Remission -- This Rapture -- The Broken World -- The American Dream -- Dybbuks -- My Aunt Calls from Bellevue -- June Bugs -- Geography -- Hawthorne Metal, Detroit, 1939 -- Lady of Guadalupe -- Working the Spanish Night of a Ladies Room -- Willow Twigs -- Aunt Sarah (1903-81) -- Feeding -- Little Girl in Blue, 1918 -- Modigliani: Venus Naturalis -- Pornography at Kmart -- Cracking Eggs -- The Surveyor -- Mammography -- All the Bells -- The Impossible Line -- Bask in the World. |
| Summary |
The Broken World, the powerful debut of a poet of great depth and maturity, begins with narratives of individuals caught up in circumstance - a distressed girl on a Detroit overpass, a boy shooting baskets at a crisis center. By the end of the slim volume, Marcus Cafagna had led us through the postwar New York of Jewish Holocaust survivors to his native Michigan, where his marriage ended tragically with his wife's suicide, a death that has come to symbolize for Cafagna the confusion and madness of the twentieth century. |
| Genre/Form |
Poetry. (OCoLC)fst01423828
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Poetry.
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| ISBN |
0252065506 (alk. paper) |
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9780252065507 (alk. paper) |
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