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Title: Manthology
Condition: New
Format: Paperback
Subtitle: Poems on the Male Experience
EAN: 9780877459880
ISBN: 9780877459880
Publisher: University of Iowa Press
Release Date: 30/05/2006
Description: Why focus an anthology of poems on the male experience when, for centuries, men have pretty much dominated everything from politics to the literary canon? Hasn't everything that can be said about the male experience already been said? This collection proves that the answer is a resounding no. Each of the anthology's ninety-three poems spotlights an individual experience that nonetheless becomes universal. Together poems from ninety-three poets - twenty-six of them female - take on self-doubt, fatherhood, sex, death, relationships, work, war, peace, and a diversity of other topics to form a perceptive and insightful collection. ""The idea isn't so much that the poems celebrate men as that they challenge the reader to discover for him or herself what is male about the poem,"" says Billy Collins about the collection. Humorous, sad, celebratory, and thoughtful, ""Manthology"" gathers a surprising group of poems focused on the almost poignant intensity of the male experience, with its attendant urgencies, confusions, and hilarities.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Weight: 291g
Contributor: Craig Crist-Evans (Edited by), Kate Fetherston (Edited by), Roger Weingarten (Edited by)
Author: Craig Crist-Evans
Genre: Poetry & Drama
Release Year: 2006

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