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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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      Publisher: Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 23/03/2000
      ISBN13: 9780802136572, 978-0802136572
      ISBN10: 0802136575

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      Book Synopsis
      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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