Publication

2010 - University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois

Language

English

Word Count

18,750 words, Guess

Page Count

75 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Better World Books9780226035642
  • Open LibraryOL23981395M

Classifications

  • DDC811/.54
  • LCCPS3552.A443 Z35 2010
  • LCCPS3552.A443Z35 2010

Description

Widely known for his memoir and nonfiction on the Armenian genocide, Peter Balakian is also an accomplished poet, and Ziggurat is his first book of poems in nine years. Exploring history, self, and imagination, as well as his ongoing concerns with catastrophe and trauma, many of Balakian's new poems wrestle with the aftermath and reverberations of 9/11.Whether reliving the building of the World Trade Towers in the inventive forty-three section poem that anchors the book, walking the ruins of the Bosnian National Library in Sarajevo, meditating on Andy Warhol's silk screens, or considering the.

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Phoenix poets

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