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Times Beach (NOTRE DAME REVIEW Prize)
John Shoptaw
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Description for Times Beach (NOTRE DAME REVIEW Prize)
Paperback. Winner of the Notre Dame Review Prize, this ambitious collection of poems evokes the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and meditates on how its rivers are ceaselessly shaping, and shaped by, the lives around them. Series: Notre Dame Review Prize. Num Pages: 144 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 13. Weight in Grams: 272.
Winner of the Notre Dame Review Book Prize, this ambitious collection of poems evokes the cultural and environmental history of the Mississippi watershed and meditates on how its rivers are ceaselessly shaping, and shaped by, the lives around them. John Shoptaw guides us from the Mississippi’s headwaters in Lake Itasca to its delta in the Gulf of Mexico, weaving together episodes in the life of the river system—the New Madrid earthquakes, the 1927 flood, the EPA’s eradication of the dioxin-laced town of Times Beach—with his own memories of growing up in the Missouri Bootheel: picking cotton, being baptized in a ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press
Condition
New
Series
Notre Dame Review Prize
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268017859
SKU
V9780268017859
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About John Shoptaw
John Shoptaw teaches at the University of California, Berkeley.
Reviews for Times Beach (NOTRE DAME REVIEW Prize)
“Times Beach is brimming, teeming with life. John Shoptaw, with breathtaking expanse and lasting intricacy, somehow writes a book in which we traverse the vastness of the American landscape—its gorgeous yet misguided rivers, its achingly honest and flawed humans, its forgotten bayous and wildlife—with a hand made nimble by reverence. In this, he revivifies American poetry into an optimism that ... Read more