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The Last Person to Hear Your Voice

By Richard Shelton

Book information

Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780822978039, 9780822959571
LCC
MLCM
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
247 kB (252997 bytes)
Series
Pitt Poetry Ser.
Edition
1
Pages
118\118
Time added
2023-08-08 06:14:17
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Description

While Shelton has been known primarily for his poems dealing with the landscape of the Southwest and the destruction of that landscape, the poems in this book are much more far-ranging, including many poems dealing with soocial issues (the issue of illegal immigration on our southern border, homelessness), historical events (the war in Iraq, the events of 9/11) and attitudes concerning politics and the environment. The poems are filled with sensory images, engaged in the real world, often ironic or simply off-the-wall, and their tone ranges from deeply sad, as in a requiem for Glen Canyon on the Colorado River, to the wildly funny, as in Brief Communications from My widowed Mother.

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