"What is missing?" The question echoes throughout a sprawling collection. For this poet, our present age is marked by an absurd level of cruelty and violence; and poetry, if it is to address that at all, must rise to the same frenetic level. As he points out, "Look what men do to women. Why should art be less?" With such an intent in mind, one might anticipate a certain amount of moralizing. But Clayton Eshleman gives the collection a refreshingly bizarre array of imagery through which incidents like the Bosnian civil war ...
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"What is missing?" The question echoes throughout a sprawling collection. For this poet, our present age is marked by an absurd level of cruelty and violence; and poetry, if it is to address that at all, must rise to the same frenetic level. As he points out, "Look what men do to women. Why should art be less?" With such an intent in mind, one might anticipate a certain amount of moralizing. But Clayton Eshleman gives the collection a refreshingly bizarre array of imagery through which incidents like the Bosnian civil war are viewed. Eshleman is a reverse prophet, returning to 13,000 B.C. to crouch in a cave of ancient paintings and describe our world on the wall.
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Add this copy of Under World Arrest to cart. $6.95, like new condition, Sold by Longhouse, Pub. & Bookseller rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from West Brattleboro, VT, UNITED STATES, published by Black Sparrow, 1994.
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Good. Size: 5x0x8; Good, clean text, paperback binding, light to moderate wear to corners and edges. Earthlight Books is a family owned and operated, independent bookstore serving Walla Walla, Washington since 1973.
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Very good. A near fine copy. Straight and strong and clean. Light wear to wraps. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 197 p. Audience: General/trade. Poems by the great postmodern poet, Clayton Eshleman.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. A near fine book and dust jacket. Sewn binding. Pictorial boards. Acetate dust jacket. 197 pg. Book is straight with tight binding and clean text. One of 200 trade hardbound copies printed.
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Fine in Near Fine Plus jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Signed by Author Hard cover in clear acetate dust jacket, as issued. cloth-backed, paper-covered boards with paper label to spine., faint surface rubbing to dj back panel. no other wear or flaws. clean, no markings of any sort. no bumps, tears. tight binding. great copy.; number 65 from the first edition of 100 signed, numbered copies.; 197pp., collection of the author's poetry.
