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All That Mighty Heart: London Poems
Lisa Russ Spaar
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Description for All That Mighty Heart: London Poems
Hardcover. A collection of poems about London which is suitable for: the student abroad for a semester, the armchair traveler, or the critical reader of poetry. It conveys a sense that London is a place of exile and transplantation, a protean site of history, projection, culture, and personal drama. Editor(s): Spaar, Lisa Russ. Num Pages: 240 pages, colour line drawings. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 222 x 135 x 22. Weight in Grams: 349.
Lisa Russ Spaar has assembled a collection of poems about London to appeal to most anyone: the student abroad for a semester, the armchair traveler, or the most critical reader of poetry. The book conveys a sense that London, as both city and text, is a place of exile and transplantation, a protean site of history, projection, culture, and personal drama.The collection includes poems written over a five-hundred-year period and represents nearly twenty different languages and cultures, resulting in a distinctive gathering that gives voice to the classic, the contemporary, and everything in-between. In these pages, readers will find the ... Read more
Lisa Russ Spaar has assembled a collection of poems about London to appeal to most anyone: the student abroad for a semester, the armchair traveler, or the most critical reader of poetry. The book conveys a sense that London, as both city and text, is a place of exile and transplantation, a protean site of history, projection, culture, and personal drama.The collection includes poems written over a five-hundred-year period and represents nearly twenty different languages and cultures, resulting in a distinctive gathering that gives voice to the classic, the contemporary, and everything in-between. In these pages, readers will find the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Charlottesville, United States
ISBN
9780813927176
SKU
V9780813927176
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About Lisa Russ Spaar
Lisa Russ Spaar is an Associate Professor of English and Director of the Area Program in Poetry Writing at the University of Virginia. She has also been an instructor for the University of Virginia Culture of London Summer Program at Regents College. She is the editor of the anthology Acquainted with the Night: Insomnia Poems and the author of several ... Read more
Reviews for All That Mighty Heart: London Poems
The opening pages make you want to drop everything and go to London. - Steven Gould Axelrod, University of California, Riverside, editor of The New Anthology of American Poetry, Vols. 1 & 2.