American Cycle Paperback / softback
by Larry Beckett
Paperback / softback
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Ten long poems that try to do for America what Shakespeare did for England: turn history and legend into poetry. American Cycle, a sequence of long poems inspired by our folklore and past, was written over forty-seven years.
Its themes are love, local mythology, history, justice, memory, accomplishment, time. "The books are extraordinary, sustained explosions of authentic American language and energy.
Each is entirely different from the others in style, voice, form and narrative content; each so rich in imagery and nuance and texture and event and so finely crafted. . . " —Paul Williams, author of Bob Dylan: Performing Artist.
Its styles are connected to our speech: Spanish words loaned from Old California, rough colloquialisms in Paul Bunyan, the power of African-American vernacular English in John Henry, bare oratory in Chief Joseph, old west phrases in Wyatt Earp, circus ballyhoo in P.
T. Barnum, aviation jargon in Amelia Earhart, backwoods dialect in Blue Ridge.
As Walt Whitman says, "I hear America singing, the varied carols. . .”
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:770 pages
- Publisher:Running Wild, LLC
- Publication Date:01/07/2022
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- ISBN:9781955062107
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:770 pages
- Publisher:Running Wild, LLC
- Publication Date:01/07/2022
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- ISBN:9781955062107