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Overview
Biography of a Name, a poem in free verse and prose, uses the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa as a vehicle (call it a Buick sedan with plenty of room in the trunk), to explore identity and loss in modern America. It visits Depression-era Detroit, New Jersey, football stadiums, assembly lines, jails, backyard swing sets, and gravel pits, and it listens as it drives on I-40 to country music strummed on three strands of slack barbed wire. At the end, the poem pulls up at a bar where humor and pain are drinking together, looking at their watches, waiting for the punchline.
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- ISBN-13: 9781947021341
- ISBN-10: 1947021346
- Publisher: Unsolicited Press
- Publish Date: April 2018
- Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.06 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.12 pounds
- Page Count: 30
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