Scorpio Rising : Selected Poems
Overview
Culled from six previous collections, Scorpio Rising: Selected Poems, is the culmination of a thirty-five-year career. Katrovas's early poems reflect a harrowing childhood on the highways of America as his parents fled the FBI. They also probe the gas-lit backstreets of New Orleans's French Quarter where "the protean human heart/is nature's crime against us." Witness to Prague's Velvet Revolution while on a Fulbright Fellowship, Katrovas in his later poems meditates upon his own American identity as he raises bi-cultural, bilingual daughters. Katrovas's formal verse has an edge we do not usually associate with traditionally formal poetry. Understanding that all gendered identity is a construction, Katrovas explores, as few lyric poets have, the linguistic and emotional contours of "masculinity."
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780887485343
- ISBN-10: 0887485340
- Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
- Publish Date: February 2011
- Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.6 pounds
- Page Count: 192
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