The Long Fault: Poems - Softcover

Jay Rogoff (Author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0807133043 ISBN 13: 9780807133040

Publisher: LSU Press, 2008

Synopsis

In The Long Fault, Jay Rogoff explores how the disasters of human history scar the individual psyche and how our creative acts of art and love help us to resist this damage. After opening with Cain launched into exile-"from the good book hurled / out to beget the world"-Rogoff then sweeps us along in his imaginative wanderings, pondering our mortality through the means and powers poetry makes available. The poems explore sacred and secular history, including wars as ancient as Troy and as contemporary as Iraq, and incidents of mass violence from the Middle Ages to modern times. They simultaneously enlist the power of all forms of art as an ally in confronting disaster and helping us proceed.

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About the Author

Jay Rogoff is the author of the poetry collections The Cutoff and How We Came to Stand on That Shore. His verse has appeared in Agni, Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Literary Imagination, The Pro­gressive, Southern Review, and many other journals. A lecturer in English at Skidmore College, he lives in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: LSU Press
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0807133043
• ISBN 13: 9780807133040
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 250