
In the Time of Assignments
Douglas A. Martin(Author)
Soft Skull Press
Published on 1. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-9796636-0-4 (ISBN)
Description
"In the Time of Assignments" transforms a decade's worth of feeling into a lyrical collection of verse. Readers familiar with Martin's work will find a repurposing and revelation of the foundations for his prior experiments in prose. The work is divided into three parts, each with a geographical marker indicating the narrator's evolving identity, from the formative, Red State landscape that colors the first section through the widening horizons, growing sexual awareness, and crush of experience found in the final two. The beautifully fragmentary narrative exhibited in Martin's novels takes hold here in long, poetic sequences and angled interludes; lyric is the steady underpinning.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 209 mm
Width: 147 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
254 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-9796636-0-4 (9780979663604)
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Douglas A. Martin