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The Fugitive Self: New and Selected Poems

by John Wheatcroft

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Publisher Comments:

The Fugitive Selfis a tribute to a distinguished career spanning fifty years in American letters. At once meditative, whimsical, and hard-hitting, it illuminates the spiritual cost of American expansion.

Nothing we’d been counting on
all the time we’d waited
was waiting when we arrived.

Only more waiting—

John Wheatcroftis the author of twenty books in three genres, a WWII combat veteran, and professor emeritus at Bucknell University. He has a well-known following—Peter Balakian, Bruce Smith, Tom Gardner, Betsy Sholl—who believes his work is seminal to understanding violence now and in the second half of the twentieth century.

Product Details

ISBN:
9780979745096
Subtitle:
New and Selected Poems
Author:
Wheatcroft, John
Publisher:
Etruscan Press
Subject:
General
Subject:
General Poetry
Subject:
American - General
Publication Date:
November 2009
Binding:
Paperback
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Pages:
218
Dimensions:
9.12x6.35x.62 in. .85 lbs.

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