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Trouble Lights
William Olsen
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Description for Trouble Lights
Paperback. Travelling from the rural Midwest and Chicago, his mythic childhood city, to the out-posts of Cornwall and far-off Guangzhou, the author searches for the miracle of wholeness in the small details. His poetry aims to create a genuine surrealism. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DCF; WTL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 8. Weight in Grams: 172.
Traveling from the rural Midwest and Chicago, his mythic childhood city, to the outposts of Cornwall and far-off Guangzhou, William Olsen searches for the miracle of wholeness in the small details. An urgency inhabits his poems as they lament and protest a pandemic disrespect for all things natural and the replacement of such with material progress. Olsen seeks to make a truly substantial inquiry into human existence, which leads him to test the adequacy of language. Filling his verses with a dazzling language that challenges, transports, questions, and intoxicates, he thus creates a genuine surrealism. His meditations on contemporary life ... Read more
Traveling from the rural Midwest and Chicago, his mythic childhood city, to the outposts of Cornwall and far-off Guangzhou, William Olsen searches for the miracle of wholeness in the small details. An urgency inhabits his poems as they lament and protest a pandemic disrespect for all things natural and the replacement of such with material progress. Olsen seeks to make a truly substantial inquiry into human existence, which leads him to test the adequacy of language. Filling his verses with a dazzling language that challenges, transports, questions, and intoxicates, he thus creates a genuine surrealism. His meditations on contemporary life ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Triquarterly
Condition
New
Number of Pages
120
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810151079
SKU
V9780810151079
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Ref
99-15
About William Olsen
WILLIAM OLSEN is a professor of English at Western Michigan University. He has received an NEA fellowship, a Breadloaf Merilmykian fellowship and has won numerous awards for his poetry including a Pushcart Prize and two Academy of American Poets Awards. His two previous collections are Vision of a Storm Cloud (Northwestern, 1996) and The Hand of God and a Few ... Read more
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