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What is Belovèd Beast : Poems about?

Beloved Beast Is An American Travelogue Of Sorts, Says Dennis Finnell. In Part It Records A Cross-country Trek By Car And By Air From The Catskills To L. A. And Halfway Back, With Encounters Along The Way With Washington Irving's Headless Horseman And Rip Van Winkle, Humphrey Bogart's Nick In Knock On Any Door, An Ersatz Huck Finn Working The Tourists In Hannibal, And Others. One Might Say That These Poems Are About Being An Ego, Finnell Explains, An I, America's Most Highly Mythologized Product, And How Being This American Self Increasingly Means Being Isolated, A Party Of One. I Suppose The Beloved Beast Is Me, Is Us, Our Country, Our Selves, And The Poems Here Trace Out The Figures Of The Beast - Lyrical, Social, Cultural.--book Jacket. Headless Horseman -- On The Taconic Parkway At Nine Partners' Road -- Distant Men, Distant Trees -- Grotto -- Cupola -- Kiss -- Bonfire's Story -- The Generic Manifesto -- Rapunzel, Rapunzel -- Hanging Bridge -- Invasions Of Privacies -- Hannibal, Revisited -- Fertile Crescent -- The Bloody Brook Bar -- The Book Of Moonlight -- The Last Sky -- Martyrdom -- Pocket Full Of Posie -- Ballade, U.s.a. -- The Bed -- Dickinson Mound Rest Stop, Western Il

Author

Dennis Finnell

Publisher

Athens, Ga.: University of Georgia Press

Published

1995

Language

EN

ISBN

9780820317083

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities