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Gravesend [[electronic resource] /] / Cole Swensen



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Autore: Swensen Cole <1955-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Gravesend [[electronic resource] /] / Cole Swensen Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2012
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (97 p.)
Disciplina: 811/.54
Soggetto topico: American poetry
Soggetto non controllato: advanced poetry
book club reads
books by women
books for poetry lovers
complex poems
discussion books
easy to read
edge of your seat
engaging
european expansion
european history
ghost poems
ghosts
gothic
historical
history and poetry
how to write a poem
learning while reading
leisure reads
page turner
paranormal
pass on books
poetry books
poetry techniques
pre 21st century
stories with poems
suspense
suspenseful poems
understanding poetry
vacation books
western world history
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- One: Have you ever seen a ghost? -- Two: How did Gravesend get its name? -- Three: What do you think a ghost is? -- Acknowledgments -- Notes
Sommario/riassunto: "Ghosts appear in place of whatever a given people will not face" (p. 65)The poems in Gravesend explore ghosts as instances of collective grief and guilt, as cultural constructs evolved to elide or to absorb a given society's actions, as well as, at times, to fill the gaps between such actions and the desires and intentions of its individual citizens. Tracing the changing nature of the ghostly in the western world from antiquity to today, the collection focuses particularly on the ghosts created by the European expansion of the 16th through 20th centuries, using the town of Gravesend, the seaport at the mouth of the Thames through which countless emigrants passed, as an emblem of theambiguous threshold between one life and another, in all the many meanings of that phrase.
Titolo autorizzato: Gravesend  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49219-8
9786613587428
0-520-95240-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820735103321
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Serie: New California poetry.