Crossing State Lines: An American Renga
By Unknown Author.
Description
A collaborative poem about America, from fifty-four of our best poetsCrossing State Lines: An American Renga is a poetic relay race across the continent: fifty-four poets responding to ideas of America―and to each other. This is a collaborative journey of impressions―from the election and inauguration of President Obama, through foreclosures, job losses, chords of country music, and bombs in Baghdad, to a poet-soldier's rifle-sight in Afghanistan. The renga itself, in the ancient tradition of Japanese linked verse, provides the form of this historic conversation among the poets, as the...
ISBN(s)
0374132135, 9780374132132
