Publication

1996 - Penguin, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

31,750 words, Guess

Page Count

127 pages

Identifiers

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  • LibraryThing492507

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3554.O2 C59 1996

Description

Taking a different tack than John Keats in 'Ode to a Nightingale, ' Stephen Dobyns joins sixty-nine poems in Common Carnage, his ninth book of poetry, in order to address the conundrum 'How hard to love the world; we must love the world.' The spiritual intermixed with the bawdy, the courageous with the cowardly, the kindly with the cruel - Common Carnage rejects the decorous and decorative to map the complexity, the common carnage of our lives as it seeks to understand our nature.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Penguin poets

Other Editions

  • Common carnagePenguin1996-01-01

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