LEADER 02361nam 2200577 450 001 9910791147903321 005 20230803221835.0 010 $a0-8229-8026-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000001341109 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001339395 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11873850 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001339395 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11351834 035 $a(PQKB)11553082 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC2041619 035 $a(OCoLC)887684113 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse35575 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL2041619 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10904629 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL633790 035 $a(OCoLC)889438390 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001341109 100 $a20140810h20142014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Americans /$fDavid Roderick 210 1$aPittsburgh, Pennsylvania :$cUniversity of Pittsburgh Press,$d2014. 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (89 pages) 225 1 $aPitt Poetry Series 300 $aPoems. 311 $a0-8229-6312-4 311 $a1-322-02539-8 330 $aDavid Roderick's second book, The Americans, pledges its allegiance to dirt. And to laptops. And to swimming pools, the Kennedys, a flower in a lapel, plastic stars hanging from the ceiling of a child's room, churning locusts, a jar of blood, a gleam of sun on the wing of a plane. His poems swarm with life. They also ask an unanswerable question: What does it mean to be an American? Restless against the borders we build--between countries, between each other--Roderick roams from place to place in order to dig into the messy, political, idealistic and ultimately inexplicable idea of American-ness. His rangy, inquisitive lyrics stitch together a patchwork flag, which he stakes alongside all the noise of our construction, our obsessive building and making, while he imagines the fate of a nation built on desire. 410 0$aPitt poetry series. 606 $aEnglish poetry 606 $aAmerican poetry 615 0$aEnglish poetry. 615 0$aAmerican poetry. 676 $a821.008 700 $aRoderick$b David$01530058 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910791147903321 996 $aThe Americans$93774798 997 $aUNINA