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The publication of Alexander Theroux's Collected Poems, a gathering of more than 660 poems, an astonishing creative output, will be among the major literary events of the year. Here is a full cornucopia of sonnets, odes, ballads, free verse, triolets, pure, satires, narratives, dramatic monologues, fanciful meditations, flytings and harangues, ruminations on death and lost love, and no end of lyrics both beautiful and fierce. Taken altogether they contrive to make up a record of the author's deepest thoughts and reflect the dramatis personae of his life. Theroux captures in his work those rare, frail, but precious truths, inaccessible to the common run of men that would otherwise have vanished into nescience. Sardonic, astute, impertinent, tender, clever, warmhearted, delphic, truculent, comic, defiantly aggressive, and often achingly personal, he shows an intensity of observation and invention.

Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781606998021
  • ISBN-10: 1606998021
  • Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
  • Publish Date: May 2015
  • Dimensions: 9.4 x 6.3 x 2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 3.1 pounds
  • Page Count: 672
  • Reading Level: Ages 16-UP

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