Cooling Time An American Poetry Vigil

Name: Cooling Time An American Poetry Vigil
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ISBN: 9781556592164

ISBN-10: 1556592167

ISBN-13: 9781556592164

Edition: 2004

Authors: C. D. Wright

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C. D. Wright takes her title from a line of legal defense, peculiar to Texas courts, in which it is held that if a man kills before having had time "to cool" after receiving an injury or an insult he is not guilty of murder. Cooling Time is a new type of book, an unruly vigil that is an interconnected memoir-poem-essay about contemporary American poetry. Ever focused on possibilities, Wright demonstrates that "the search for models becomes a search for alternatives," and thereby defines the terms by which poets can chart their own course. These are some of the things I have touched in my life that are forbidden: paintings behind velvet ropes, electric fencing, a vault in an office, gun in…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Copper Canyon Press
Publication date: 2/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.374
Language: English