David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly sonnets, in which rock and roll music is a strange, kaleidoscopic mirror of recent American history. Combining rhapsodic homage, grim humor, human folly, and tragedy, these poems are like nothing else in contemporary poetry.
| ISBN: | 9780822954293 |
| Publication date: | 29th May 1990 |
| Author: | David Wojahn |
| Publisher: | University of Pittsburgh Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 112 pages |
| Series: | Pitt Poetry Series |
| Genres: |
Poetry |
David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly sonnets, in which rock and roll music is a strange, kaleidoscopic mirror of recent American history. Combining rhapsodic homage, grim humor, human folly, and tragedy, these poems are like nothing else in contemporary poetry.
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Mystery Train was written by David Wojahn and published by University of Pittsburgh Press
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