Overview
Gerald Costanzo, long known as one of the best contemporary poets of satire, focuses specifically on American themes that, though presented as parables, fables, jokes, and put-ons, remain darkly serious in tone. His subject is the mythic landscape of America itself: the transitory, popular, consumer culture of late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century life. Costanzo evokes a sense of having arrived on the scene too late, of having missed the heyday of American innocence and possibility, and now--in the present--is forced to live with diminished experience. He mourns a culture where genuine emotion cannot be found but where its semblance can be endlessly marketed. Regular Haunts is a retrospective collection of Costanzo's work that also includes nearly thirty new poems.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781496205865
- ISBN-10: 1496205863
- Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
- Publish Date: March 2018
- Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.45 pounds
- Page Count: 156
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