Memory Wing

by Bill Lavender

Overview

A memoir in verse that explores the outer reaches of truth: of memory, language and art. Loosely based on the tripartite structure of The Divine Comedy, this poem appears as a simple memoir in lyrical and immediately accessible language, yet it works by accumulation to question the very fact of memory and the foundations of truth and identity. This is a poem that reads as easily as a memoir but which is as dense with allusion as one of The Cantos. As Andrei Codrescu has said of it: "This is a grand American long poem Doc Williams would be proud of."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780983707905
Publisher:	Commonwealth Books, Black Widow
Publication date:	12/16/2011
Series:	Black Widow Press Modern Poetry
Pages:	219
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)