Adventures of Ibn Opcit Two Volume Box Set

Name: Adventures of Ibn Opcit Two Volume Box Set
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ISBN: 9781597092739

ISBN-10: 1597092738

ISBN-13: 9781597092739

Edition: 2013

Authors: John Gorman Barr

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The Adventures of Ibn Opcitis a two-volume work by John Barr, first president of The Poetry Foundation.Grace, the first volume of this mock epic, is the master song of Ibn Opcit, a Caribbean gardener/poet condemned to die by torture. In a series of jailhouse monologues we hear him descant on justice, on creation, on America, on death and on life after death. In volume two,Opcit at Large, the poet pushes back on his oppressors in three adventures. Like Virgil in theInfernohe visits the afterworld of reincarnation in “The Afterdammit;” he struggles to survive as poet laureate to Africa’s newest President for Life in “Opcit en Afrique;” he orbits earth as “The Last Cosmonaut” on the eve of…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Red Hen Press
Publication date: 1/15/2013
Binding: Looseleaf - sheets only
Pages: 280
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.936
Language: English