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Things Come on
Joseph Harrington
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Description for Things Come on
Hardback. National and family disasters converge in this radically new kind of memoir Num Pages: 108 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 313.
Things Come On is a broken and sutured hybrid of forms, combining poetry, prose narration, primary documents, dramatic dialogue, and pictures. The narrative is woven around the almost exact concurrence of the Watergate scandal and the dates of the poet's mother's illness and death from breast cancer, and weaves together private and public tragedies-showing how the language of illness and of political cover-up powerfully resonate with one another. The resulting "amneoir" (a blend of "memoir" and "amnesia") explores a time for which the author must rely largely on testimony and documentary evidence-not unlike the Congress and the nation did during ... Read more
Things Come On is a broken and sutured hybrid of forms, combining poetry, prose narration, primary documents, dramatic dialogue, and pictures. The narrative is woven around the almost exact concurrence of the Watergate scandal and the dates of the poet's mother's illness and death from breast cancer, and weaves together private and public tragedies-showing how the language of illness and of political cover-up powerfully resonate with one another. The resulting "amneoir" (a blend of "memoir" and "amnesia") explores a time for which the author must rely largely on testimony and documentary evidence-not unlike the Congress and the nation did during ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Press of New England United States
Number of pages
108
Condition
New
Number of Pages
108
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780819571359
SKU
V9780819571359
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