Middens of the tribe
a poem
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Author
Publication
1995 - Louisiana State University Press, Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Language
English
Word Count
19,250 words, Guess
Page Count
77 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1119923M
- ISBN-100807120006
- OCLC Control Number31707474
- OCLC Control Numbermiddensoftribepo00hoff
- Library of Congress Control Number94046351
and 2 more
- Goodreads4415392
- LibraryThing1581597
Classifications
- DDC811/.54
- LCCPS3515.O2416 M53 1995
Description
Part family romance, part deconstructed novel, Middens of the Tribe repossesses for poetry a range of experience long ceded to fiction. With his well-tuned ear for the rhythms of speech and his resourceful versing, Daniel Hoffman explores the consonances and contrasts between interconnected lives in a modern city and an archaeologist's reconstruction of a primitive people's past: Can the middens / of the tribe I study tell if family / strife always reveals a culture's dynamics, / if, amid bones, flints, sufferings are the same? Leavened by touches comic and grotesque, Middens of the Tribe reveals, in the nexus of lives intertwined, a cubist rendering of intimacy, alienation, and loss.
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