Devotions

Name: Devotions
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ISBN: 9780226764351

ISBN-10: 0226764354

ISBN-13: 9780226764351

Edition: 2011

Authors: Bruce Smith

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In the hands of Bruce Smith, devotions are momentary stops to listen to the motor of history. They are meditations and provocations. They are messages received from the chatter of the street and from transmissions as distant as Memphis and al-Mansur. Bulletins and interruptions come from brutal elsewheres and from the interior where music puts electrodes on the body to take an EKG. These poems visit high schools, laundromats, motels, films, and dreams in order to measure the American hunger and thirst. They are interested in the things we profess to hold most dear as well as what's unspoken and unbidden. While we're driving, while riding a bus, while receiving a call, while passing through…

Book details

List price: $22.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 4/15/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 104
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English

Silvia Montiglio is associate professor of classics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is author of Silence in the Land of Logos.