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In poems at once searing and soft-spoken, The Perishing travels between the bounded reach of personal time and the inexorable sweep of history. A double villannelle tracks the course of genocide from Tamerlane to Pol Pot; a narrative reconnects an exiled South American tyrant in a Paris cafe to the killings fields of the country; the paired photographs of Rwandan refugees and a Serbian sniper lead the poet to ponder the link between beauty and horror, the aesthetics and the political. Santos Sherod fashions a music - whether lyric, narrative, formal, or free - touched with the kind of compassion derived from the lifelong study of the human heart.

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Book category Books in English Literature & literary studies Poetry

• Full title: Perishing
• Subtitle: Poems
• Author: Sherod Santos
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96
• EAN: 9780393325768
• ISBN: 0393325768
• ID: 04877124
• Publisher: WW Norton & Co
• Weight: 143 g
• Dimensions: 208 × 142 × 10 mm
• Date of publishing: 17. July 2004

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