A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems Nurkse D.
The selected poems of an essential American poet, who has cast a clear eye on our politics, our places, and our heart's hidden stories over eleven books and thirty-five years.D. Nurkse's immigrant…
Specifikacia A Country of Strangers: New and Selected Poems Nurkse D.
The selected poems of an essential American poet, who has cast a clear eye on our politics, our places, and our heart's hidden stories over eleven books and thirty-five years.D. Nurkse's immigrant parents met on a boat out of Europe in 1940; he was a child of the generation whose anxieties were forged in the shadow of Hiroshima and the aftermath of WWII. His poems extend that child's dignified ignorance into an open encounter with the cataclysms of the latter twentieth century and with family structures.Whispers of the old country of Estonia provide the backdrop for the boy's baseballs, thrown in the fading twilight of the 1950s (Secretly, I was proudest of my skill / at standing alone in the darkness). The young man explores sexual passion and the arrival of a child in a young marriage (We showed her daylight in our cupped hands), while the mature poet writes of
Selected and New Poems
New and Selected Poems
New Selected Poems
New Selected Poems
New Selected Poems