Ten Commandments
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Word Count
30,000 words, Guess
Page Count
120 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archivetencommandments00jdmc
- ISBN-100375701346
- ISBN-139780375701344
- Goodreads1252881
- Better World Books9780375701344
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL7426147M
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3563.A26123 A6214 1998
Description
Ten Commandments is a book-length sequence of poems that plot the rules we were raised on, rules we forget but can't evade. Here is the whole underworld of desire, its tasks and perversions. Here are the iron laws and the way the heart is shaped by them, even as it prefers betrayal, adultery, murder, or greed. J. D. McClatchy draws on intimate authobiographical details, and on a range of historical incidents that includes an eerie account of Proust in a brothel and a chilling glimpse of Eichmann in Argentina. Sideshow freaks, snipers in Vietnam, Auden's dictionary, whirling dervishes, motel and mammogram, slave and saint--this book is a cabinet of moral curiosities, a collage of emotional astonishments.
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