Two Wives Ago: Selected Poems - Softcover

Mainzer, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1441514821 ISBN 13: 9781441514820

Publisher: Xlibris, 2009

Synopsis

Among the characters encountered herein are a dying Pope, a diligent hangman, a banker・ ・s daughter (who couples with the plumber), a young woman who wants to force her way into a library, a starving cat, children and the aged and the dead, a bridegroom who goes to sleep for fifty years and a death-row marriage, the snake and the lion and crocuses and forsythia. Silence, seasons, war, and love are all explained (or clarified). Word play occasionally intrudes. The poems are organized into six categories: Politics and War, Nature, Decay and Death, Love, Scrutiny and Introspection, Words and Books.

About this title

About the Author

Lewis C. Mainzer is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and former editor of Polity, The Journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association. He is author of Political Bureaucracy: The American Public Service and of essays in professional journals and literary reviews (Yale Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Massachusetts Review). His essays examine such topics as "Honor in the Bureaucratic Life," "Church, State, and Perfection," and "A Public Place for American Science." He is a sometime community TV election night program host and a long-time elective member of Amherst, MA representative Town Meeting.

Edition details

• Publisher: Xlibris
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1441514821
• ISBN 13: 9781441514820
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 150