02394nam 2200589 450 991045875940332120200520144314.00-8229-8026-6(CKB)2550000001341109(SSID)ssj0001339395(PQKBManifestationID)11873850(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001339395(PQKBWorkID)11351834(PQKB)11553082(MiAaPQ)EBC2041619(OCoLC)887684113(MdBmJHUP)muse35575(Au-PeEL)EBL2041619(CaPaEBR)ebr10904629(CaONFJC)MIL633790(OCoLC)889438390(EXLCZ)99255000000134110920140810h20142014 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrThe Americans /David RoderickPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :University of Pittsburgh Press,2014.©20141 online resource (89 pages)Pitt Poetry SeriesPoems.0-8229-6312-4 1-322-02539-8 David Roderick's second book, The Americans, pledges its allegiance to dirt. And to laptops. And to swimming pools, the Kennedys, a flower in a lapel, plastic stars hanging from the ceiling of a child's room, churning locusts, a jar of blood, a gleam of sun on the wing of a plane. His poems swarm with life. They also ask an unanswerable question: What does it mean to be an American? Restless against the borders we build--between countries, between each other--Roderick roams from place to place in order to dig into the messy, political, idealistic and ultimately inexplicable idea of American-ness. His rangy, inquisitive lyrics stitch together a patchwork flag, which he stakes alongside all the noise of our construction, our obsessive building and making, while he imagines the fate of a nation built on desire.Pitt poetry series.English poetryAmerican poetryElectronic books.English poetry.American poetry.821.008Roderick David880766MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910458759403321The Americans1967357UNINA