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Scorpio Rising Selected Poems
Paperback (21 Feb 2011)
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Culled from six previous collections, Scorpio Rising: Selected Poems, is the culmination of a thirty-five-year career. Katrovas's early poems reflect a harrowing childhood on the highways of America as his parents fled the FBI. They also probe the gas-lit backstreets of New Orleans's French Quarter where "the protean human heart/is nature's crime against us." Witness to Prague's Velvet Revolution while on a Fulbright Fellowship, Katrovas in his later poems meditates upon his own American identity as he raises bi-cultural, bilingual daughters. Katrovas's formal verse has an edge we do not usually associate with traditionally formal poetry. Understanding that all gendered identity is a construction, Katrovas explores, as few lyric poets have, the linguistic and emotional contours of "masculinity."
Book information
ISBN: | 9780887485343 |
Publisher: | Carnegie Mellon University Press |
Imprint: | Carnegie Mellon University Press |
Pub date: | 21 Feb 2011 |
DEWEY: | 811.54 |
DEWEY edition: | 23 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 191 |
Weight: | 666g |
Height: | 8mm |
Width: | 5mm |
Spine width: | 1mm |