Provoked in Venice (Wesleyan Poetry) - Softcover

Rudman, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0819563544 ISBN 13: 9780819563545

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press, 1999

Synopsis

In these powerfully conceived and understated poems, Mark Rudman asks how culture is created and shared, and how historical events and figures are known through direct experiences of place. The title Provoked in Venice alludes to the structure of the book, wherein a trip to Italy becomes the catalyst for a meditative view of the convergence of imagination, history, and the 20th-century attempt to recover them both. The narrator enters the maze of Venice like a contemporary Dante guided only by the voice of the "rider"-interlocuter. Rich in allusions to literature, film, and the past, this final volume of the trilogy will engage and sustain all mental travelers.

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About the Author

Poet, essayist, and translator, MARK RUDMAN's recent books include Millennium Hotel (1996), Realm of Unknowing (1995), Rider (1994, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry), all published by Wesleyan, and a translation of Euripides' Daughters of Troy (1998).

Edition details

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0819563544
• ISBN 13: 9780819563545
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212