American Rhapsody

by Carole Stone

Overview

The author’s romanticizing and grieving for her lost parents and America extends from the Prohibition era, its glamour and notoriety, with figures like Warren Harding and Josephine Baker to Enron, urban decay, and illegal immigration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781933880280
Publisher:	CavanKerry Press
Publication date:	03/13/2012
Series:	Notable Voices
Pages:	88
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Carole Stone is distinguished professor of English emerita at Montclair State University. She has published five books of poetry and four chapbooks, among them Traveling with the Dead, American Rhapsody, and No Happy Ruins. Her recent work has appeared in Blue Fifth Journal, Slab, Bellevue Literary Review, and Nimrod.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments • Invocation/Intoxication • Father’s Voice • In Time to Miss America’s Long Hangover • The Stranger in the Photo of My Parents • Running Boards • By the Light of the Silvery Moon • Racketeer Wife • Incantation • My Father’s Chauffeur • Jam

What People are Saying About This

Grace Schulman

". . . American Rhapsody is a charming, witty, musical portrayal of American life in the 1920s and '30s and of its larger impact on the nation today. Stone evokes the sublime of Le Jazz Hot and the seediness of rum-runners, marathon dancers and racketeers. Through it all she muses on the hope and destiny of the American dream, elegizing believers who 'live / as language / in my inky heart.' "