A01=Stephen Cushman
Author_Stephen Cushman
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Product details
- ISBN 9780807156896
- Weight: 127g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 Oct 2014
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The ""red list"" of Stephen Cushman's new volume of poetry is the endangered species register, and the book begins and ends with the bald eagle, a bird that bounded back from the verge of extinction. The volume marks the inevitability of such changes, from danger to safety, from certainty to uncertainty, from joy to sadness and back again. In a single poem that advances through wordplay and association, Cushman meditates on subjects as vast as the earth's fragile ecosystem and as small as the poet's own deflated fantasy of self-importance: ""There aren't any jobs for more Jeremiahs.""
Simultaneously teasing the present and eulogizing what has been lost, Cushman speaks like a Shakespearean jester, freely and foolishly, but with penetrating insight.
Simultaneously teasing the present and eulogizing what has been lost, Cushman speaks like a Shakespearean jester, freely and foolishly, but with penetrating insight.
Stephen Cushman is the author of the poetry collections Riffraff, Cussing Lesson, and Blue Pajamas and the nonfiction book Bloody Promenade: Reflections on a Civil War Battle. He is Robert C. Taylor Professor of English at the University of Virginia.
