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Mr. West
Sarah Blake
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Description for Mr. West
hardcover. Identities are formed and broken in this unauthorized lyric biography Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 208 x 160 x 15. Weight in Grams: 318.
Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West's life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities - to their portrayal in the media - and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person's public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake's aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is ... Read more
Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West's life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities - to their portrayal in the media - and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person's public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake's aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Wesleyan United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819575173
SKU
V9780819575173
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About Sarah Blake
SARAH BLAKE is the founder of the online writing tool Submittrs, an editor at Saturnalia Books, and a recipient of an NEA Literature Fellowship. Her poetry has appeared in Boston Review, Drunken Boat, FIELD, and The Threepenny Review. She lives outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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