The Broken World: POEMS (National Poetry Series) - Softcover

Cafagna, Marcus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0252065506 ISBN 13: 9780252065507

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 1996

Synopsis

Selected by Yusef Komunyakaa
        as one of five volumes published in 1996 in the National Poetry Series
      "Marcus CafagÑa is a poet who shies at nothing, who will
        not turn away from what he sees--ordinary people struggling against, and
        sometimes breaking on, the wheel of their fate. The Broken World
        is a deeply humane and accomplished first book--probing, watchful, compassionate,
        and necessary."
        -- Edward Hirsch
      "I challenge anyone to be unmoved by The Broken World. CafagÑa
        never gives up in these difficult, heart-rending poems." -- Jim Daniels,
        editor of Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race
      The Broken World, the powerful debut of a poet of great depth
        and maturity, begins with narratives of individuals caught up in circumstance--a
        distressed girl on a Detroit overpass, a boy shooting baskets at a crisis
        center. By the end of the slim volume, Marcus CafagÑa has led us
        through the postwar New York of Jewish Holocaust survivors to his native
        Michigan, where his marriage ended tragically with his wife's suicide,
        a death that has come to symbolize for CafagÑa the confusion and
        madness of the twentieth century.

About this title

About the Author

Marcus Cafagna teaches creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.

From the Back Cover

The Broken World, the powerful debut of a poet of great depth and maturity, begins with narratives of individuals caught up in circumstance - a distressed girl on a Detroit overpass, a boy shooting baskets at a crisis center. By the end of the slim volume, Marcus Cafagna had led us through the postwar New York of Jewish Holocaust survivors to his native Michigan, where his marriage ended tragically with his wife's suicide, a death that has come to symbolize for Cafagna the confusion and madness of the twentieth century.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0252065506
• ISBN 13: 9780252065507
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80