A01=Matthew Thorburn
Author_Matthew Thorburn
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Category=DCF
coming of age stories
contemporary American poets
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family trauma
metaphysical
narrative verse
New Jersey
orphans
poetic storytelling
recursive structure
searching
self-knowledge
wartime settings
Product details
- ISBN 9780807179048
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 228mm
- Publication Date: 01 Mar 2023
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A book-length sequence of poems, Matthew Thorburn's String tells the story of a teenage boy's experiences in a time of war and its aftermath. He loses his family and friends, his home and the life he knew, but survives to tell his story. Written in the boy's fractured, echoing voice-in lines that are frequently enjambed and use almost no punctuation - String embodies his trauma and confusion in a poetic sequence that is part lullaby, part nightmare, but always a music that is uniquely his.
