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A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in "Troy", this title offers a retelling of Chaucer's tragedy "Troilus and Criseyde".

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"With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness of landscape, and the soul-wound wrought by casual defacement. Abbate has a superb capacity for distillation and a mastery of poetic line, and her diction is remarkably flexible, accommodating both the demotic and the lyrical. Her poems are as consistent in quality as they are varied in pacing, surface, and tone. A fine first book." (Linda Gregerson, University of Michigan)"

Troy Unincorporated

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/05/2012
      ISBN13: 9780226001203, 978-0226001203
      ISBN10: 0226001202

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A meditation on the nature of betrayal, the constraints of identity, and the power of narrative, the lyric monologues in "Troy", this title offers a retelling of Chaucer's tragedy "Troilus and Criseyde".

      Trade Review
      "With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation, the nurturing richness of landscape, and the soul-wound wrought by casual defacement. Abbate has a superb capacity for distillation and a mastery of poetic line, and her diction is remarkably flexible, accommodating both the demotic and the lyrical. Her poems are as consistent in quality as they are varied in pacing, surface, and tone. A fine first book." (Linda Gregerson, University of Michigan)"

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