
The Patriot
Poems
Christopher Davis(Author)
University of Georgia Press
Will be published approx. on 1. April 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
112 pages
978-0-8203-1991-9 (ISBN)
Description
The Patriot is the chronicle of a deeply personal attempt to rebuild a sense of self and safety in an unstable environment. Christopher Davis's poems address destructive forces, including the murder of a younger brother and the impact of AIDS on modern gay culture. These elements blend with the dangers of a world in which love and death are cruelly inseparable, and in which the insinuations of consumer culture into the psyche destroy security, but in which dark humor and the beauty of imagery combat despair.
In language electric with imagination, these poems utter a mangled, stuttering, contemporary echo of Walt Whitman's poetry, cheated out of its joyous confidence but constructing, in the words of the author, a "weak bridge away from suicide."
In language electric with imagination, these poems utter a mangled, stuttering, contemporary echo of Walt Whitman's poetry, cheated out of its joyous confidence but constructing, in the words of the author, a "weak bridge away from suicide."
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Language
English
Place of publication
Georgia
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
163 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8203-1991-9 (9780820319919)
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CHRISTOPHER DAVIS is an associate professor of creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of The Tyrant of the Past and the Slave of the Future, winner of the 1988 Associated Writing Programs Award for Poetry.