13th balloon : a poem /
In his fourth collection, 13th Balloon, Mark Bibbins turns his candid eye to the American AIDS crisis. With quiet consideration and dark wit, Bibbins addresses the majority of his poems to Mark Crast, his friend and lover who died from AIDS at the early age of 25. Every broken line and startling lin...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Port Townsend, Washington :
Copper Canyon Press,
[2020]
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| Summary: | In his fourth collection, 13th Balloon, Mark Bibbins turns his candid eye to the American AIDS crisis. With quiet consideration and dark wit, Bibbins addresses the majority of his poems to Mark Crast, his friend and lover who died from AIDS at the early age of 25. Every broken line and startling linguistic turn grapples with the genre of elegy: what does it mean to experience personal loss, Bibbins seems to ask, amidst a greater societal tragedy? |
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| Item Description: | "Lannan Literary Selections" |
| Physical Description: | 93 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-90) |
| ISBN: | 1556595778 9781556595776 |