Seven American Deaths and Disasters

Name: Seven American Deaths and Disasters
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ISBN: 9781576876367

ISBN-10: 1576876365

ISBN-13: 9781576876367

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Authors: Kenneth Goldsmith

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What are the words we use to describe something that we never thought we'd have to describe? InSeven American Deaths and Disasters, Kenneth Goldsmith transcribes historic radio and television reports of national tragedies as they unfurl, revealing an extraordinarily rich linguistic panorama of passionate description. Taking its title from the Andy Warhol series of paintings by the same name, Goldsmith recasts the mundane as the iconic, creating a series of prose poems that encapsulate seven pivotally iconic moments in recent American history: the John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and John Lennon assassinations, the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, the Columbine shootings, 9-11, and the…

Book details

List price: $23.95
Publisher: powerHouse Books
Publication date: 3/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 4.29" wide x 7.00" long x 1.05" tall
Weight: 0.396