American melancholy: poems

✍ Scribed by Recorded Books, Inc.;Oates, Joyce Carol

• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 64 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Hopewell, NJ
• ISBN: 006303526X

✦ Synopsis

Joyce Carol Oates is one of our most insightful observers of the human heart and mind, and, with her acute social consciousness, one of the most insistent and inspired witnesses of a shared American history. Oates is perhaps best known for her prodigious output of novels and short stories, many of which have become contemporary classics. However, Oates has also always been a faithful writer of poetry. It showcases some of her finest work of the last few decades. Covering subjects big and small, and written in an immediate and engaging style, this collection touches on both the personal and political. Loss, love, and memory are investigated, along with the upheavals of modern age, the reality of current predicaments, and the ravages of poverty, racism, and social unrest. Oates skillfully writes characters ranging from a former doctor at a Chinese People's Liberation Army hospital to Little Albert, a six-month-old infant who took part in a famous study.

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