GREAT DIME STORE CENTENNIAL - Softcover

Don Byrd (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1581770693 ISBN 13: 9781581770698

Publisher: Station Hill Press, 2010

Synopsis

This book is a guide book to the Seven Wonders of the ancient world, seven long solos in a jam session with the dead, an answer to the four great philosophic questions of Immanuel Kant, the song of a barbaric horde, an eavesdropping at the borders of contemporary history, an account of an apocalyptic disco….And the presiding beings are Beethoven, Napoleon, Sousa, Frank Woolworth, Buddy Bolden, Charlie Parker, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. You are invited to participate. R.S.V.P.

About this title

About the Author

Donald J. Byrd is a poet, sound artist, and Professor of English at the State University of New York at Albany. His work is generally in the fields of literary analysis and information theory. His chapbook, Technics of Travel, was published by Zealot-Tansy press in 1984. His first book-length poem, Aesop's Garden, was published by North Atlantic in Plainfied, Vermont, and his second book-length poem, The Great Dimestore Centennial, was published by Station Hill. Byrd was a frequent contributor to Chris Funkhouser's "Descriptions of an Imaginary University" under the pseudonym "Thus, Albert or Hubert." His Charles Olson's Maximus is published by Southern Illinois University Press and his important The Poetics of the Common Knowledge is published by SUNY University Press. In his lifetime, he proposes to complete one-hundred volumes that will complete a set which he refers to as The Nomad's Encyclopedia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Station Hill Press
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1581770693
• ISBN 13: 9781581770698
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 277