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This tenth collection of Irving Feldman's poems extends what readers and critics have long recognized as a body of work singular in its lyric, visionary, even prophetic intensity; its extravagant wit; its powerful storytelling; and its variety of voices and range of feeling - playful, tender, ardent, biting, enthralled. Here, among the major poems of Beautiful False Things, the stand-up comic Larry Sunrise of "Funny Bones" duels with death in Florida; in "Oedipus Host," Oedipus arrives from his millennia-long trek to host a TV talk show; and the plucky feminist heroine of "Heavenly Muse" visits yet another barely worthy male poet. In the tragicomic title poem, "translation" comes to stand for the dilemmas of expression in a culture that sucks up language and spews it back.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry

• Full title: Beautiful False Things
• Author: Irving Feldman
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112
• EAN: 9780802136572
• ISBN: 9780802136572
• ID: 06572699
• Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
• Weight: 141 g
• Dimensions: 209 × 139 × 8 mm
• Date of publishing: 23. March 2000

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