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Medicine show

By Tom , Yuill

Book information

Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
2010
ISBN
9780226971674, 0226971678
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
399 kB (408614 bytes)
Series
Phoenix poets
Pages
66\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
American poetry. FICTION / General

Description

In Medicine Show, inner conflict is wonderfully realized in the clash of down-home plain speech and European high culture utterances. Freely translating and adapting Catullus (Latin), Villon (Middle French), Corbiere (French), Hikmet (Turkish), and Orpheus (Greek), and placing them alongside Jagger and Richards, skinheads, and psalms, Tom Yuill's book mirrors an old-style hawking of wares, with all the charm and absurdity that results when high culture meets pop, when city meets small town, and when provincialism confronts urbanity. Here, the poems talk to one another, one poem nudging the cus. Read more... Abstract: Adapting Catullus (Latin), Villon (Middle French), Corbiere (French), Hikmet (Turkish), and Orpheus (Greek), and placing them alongside Jagger and Richards, skinheads, and psalms, this book mirrors an old-style hawking of wares, with the charm and absurdity that results when high culture meets pop and when provincialism confronts urbanity. Read more...

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