Mystery Train

Wojahn, David

ISBN 10: 082295429X / ISBN 13: 9780822954293

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press, 1990

Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Seller Inventory # G082295429XI3N00

Synopsis:

David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly sonnets, in which rock and roll music is a strange, kaleidoscopic mirror of recent American history. Combining rhapsodic homage, grim humor, human folly, and tragedy, these poems are like nothing else in contemporary poetry.

About the Author: David Wojahn is the author of Spirit Cabinet, The Falling Hour, Late Empire, Mystery Train, Glassworks, Icehouse Lights, Interrogation Palace, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and World Tree, winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the

Bibliographic Details

Title: Mystery Train
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication Date: 1990
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket