| The Wall Contributor(s): Stavans, Ilan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822965283 ISBN-13: 9780822965282 Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - General |
| Dewey: 811.54 |
| Series: Pitt Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.3" H x 6" W x 9" (0.40 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Wall is a poetic exploration--across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical--of the U.S.-Mexican wall dividing the two civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin, Warsaw, etc.) in history, and of the act of separating people by ideology, class, race, and other subterfuges. It is an indictment of hateful political rhetoric. In the spirit of Virgil's Aeneid and Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Master, it gives voice in symphonic fashion to an assortment of participants (immigrants, border patrol, soldiers, activists, presidents, people dead and alive) involved in the debate on walls. It brings in elements of literature and pop culture, fashion and cuisine. Poetry becomes a tool to explore raw human emotions in all its extremes. |