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Avenue of Vanishing
William Olsen
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Description for Avenue of Vanishing
paperback. Explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, and along the way, constantly probes at the very nature of human language. This book contains poems which try to make sense of the individual's experience of time, memory, and society. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 156 x 9. Weight in Grams: 186.
In lyric and narrative verse, William Olsen explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, and along the way, constantly probes at the very nature of human language. Drawing surprising and illuminating connections between the political and historical, the prosaic and the personal, civilization and nature, these poems try to make sense of the individual's experience of time, memory, and society. The range of Olsen's images form an organic connection between the physical and the abstract and his hypnotic mixture of colloquial and eloquent language create a sound and music that ... Read more
In lyric and narrative verse, William Olsen explores subcultures ranging from the suburban middle class to the urban drug culture to the art world, and along the way, constantly probes at the very nature of human language. Drawing surprising and illuminating connections between the political and historical, the prosaic and the personal, civilization and nature, these poems try to make sense of the individual's experience of time, memory, and society. The range of Olsen's images form an organic connection between the physical and the abstract and his hypnotic mixture of colloquial and eloquent language create a sound and music that ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Northwestern University Press United States
Number of pages
120
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810151826
SKU
V9780810151826
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99-15
About William Olsen
William Olsen teaches at Western Michigan University and the MFA Program at Vermont College. He has been honored with an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Nation/Discovery Award, The Texas Institute of Arts Award, and a Breadloaf Fellowship. He is also the author of Vision of a Storm Cloud (Northwestern, 1996) and Trouble Lights (Northwestern, 2002) and co-editor with Sharon Bryan ... Read more
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