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Voices Bright Flags : poems by Geoffrey Brock is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Voices Bright Flags : poems about?

Poetry. VOICES BRIGHT FLAGS is a series of experiments in what is sometimes called public poetry, with the poet's country, America, and his relation to it, as the main theme. The poems approach America from a range of perspectivespolitical, historical, and personaland in a range of styles and voices, with each voice planting its own flag, as it were, implying its own America. Together the poems form a partial (in both senses) mosaic, a discordant chorus, a succession of conversations and quarrels between the poet and the motley citizens of his imagination. "The collection VOICES BRIGHT FLAGS could have been created only by a lover of textsan avid consumer of histories, biographies, diaries, essays, articles, ledgers, novels and ephemera. It is a book of and for the old-fashioned reader, the one who will appreciate the precise prosodic dados and dove-tailings of the poet's craft."from Heather McHugh's foreword "Geoffrey Brock's VOICES BRIGHT FLAGS is ambitious in the best sense of the term. The breadth of his subjectsfrom the first Western contact with the Hawaiian Islands, to ornithology, the buffalo nickel, and his young son's nightmaresmakes the unity of vision behind the book al

Author

Geoffrey Brock

Publisher

Waywiser; Waywiser Press; The Waywiser Press

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9782901904137

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities