02194oam 22004934a 450 991079519590332120180509030005.00-8229-8335-4(CKB)4340000000266642(MiAaPQ)EBC5355851(OCoLC)1032375604(MdBmJHUP)muse66738(EXLCZ)99434000000026664220180504d2018 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Wall[electronic resource] /Ilan StavansPittsburgh, Pa. University of Pittsburgh Press[2018]1 online resource (123 pages)Pitt poetry seriesPoems.0-8229-6528-3 The edge of the kingdom -- Who whoes the who? -- The opposite of indifference -- My sweet enemy.The Wall is a poetic exploration--across time, space, and language, real as well as metaphorical--of the U.S.-Mexican wall dividing the two civilizations, of similar walls (Jerusalem, China, Berlin, Warsaw, etc.) in history, and of the act of separating people by ideology, class, race, and other subterfuges. It is an indictment of hateful political rhetoric. In the spirit of Virgil's Aeneid and Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Master, it gives voice in symphonic fashion to an assortment of participants (immigrants, border patrol, soldiers, activists, presidents, people dead and alive) involved in the debate on walls. It brings in elements of literature and pop culture, fashion and cuisine. Poetry becomes a tool to explore raw human emotions in all its extremes.Pitt poetry series.American poetry20th centuryAmerican poetry21st centuryWallsPoetryPoetry.Electronic books. American poetryAmerican poetryWalls811.5408Stavans Ilan553432MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910795195903321The Wall3692298UNINA