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No Second Eden
Turner Cassity
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Description for No Second Eden
Paperback. In "No Second Eden", Cassity is more Swiftian than ever. Among the targets reduced to ruin are countertenors, parole boards, the French symbolists, calendar reformers, the Yale Divinity School and the cult of Elvis. There is also a poem about the Mississippi where Cassity grew up. Num Pages: 80 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 8. Weight in Grams: 118.
If you think that Turner Cassity has mellowed or slowed down since the 1998 release of his selected poems, The Destructive Element, think again. In No Second Eden Cassity is back more Swiftian than ever. Among the targets reduced to ruin are countertenors, parole boards, the French Symbolists, calendar reformers, the Yale Divinity School, and the cult of Elvis. Without turning a blind eye, he even extends a toast to Wernher von Braun.
Surprisingly, there is a poem about the Mississippi in which Cassity grew up. Unsurprisingly, it is a vision quite unlike others of that state. Its chilly ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Ohio University Press United States
Number of pages
80
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
Ohio, United States
ISBN
9780804010511
SKU
V9780804010511
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Ref
99-15
About Turner Cassity
Turner Cassity was born in 1929 in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the author of seven collections of poetry and the recipient of numerous prizes and awards. He retired in 1991 as a catalog librarian at the R. W. Woodruff Library, Emory University.
Reviews for No Second Eden
“As jaded as Naipaul, as funny as the early Waugh, Cassity turns phrases upside down, and pieties inside out, in forms that are at once pithy and meticulous.”
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