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Call Waiting
Overview
This full-length poetry collection from art historian David C. Ward combines wry meditations on 21st-century life, work, and family with observations of America--its landscapes, its history, its social and foreign policy. Ward's poems are peopled by those who seem never quite able to inhabit their own lives: from well-known figures such as Andy Warhol and vanished poet Weldon Kees to Ward's own father, a nighthawk playing poker against himself in the early hours. The book's final section turns an unflinching gaze on the post-9/11 United States and its self-deceptions.
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- ISBN-13: 9781847772268
- ISBN-10: 1847772269
- Publisher: Carcanet Press
- Publish Date: September 2014
- Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 0.4 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.3 pounds
- Page Count: 80
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