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The Blue Buick: New and Selected Poems

✍ Scribed by B. H. Fairchild

Book ID: 109891538
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Tongue: English
Weight: 128 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780393240269

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✦ Synopsis

"[B. H. Fairchild] is the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic."--New York Times Gathering works from five of B. H. Fairchild's previous volumes stretching over thirty years, and adding twenty-six brilliant new poems, The Blue Buick showcases the career of a poet who represents "the American voice at its best: confident and conflicted, celebratory and melancholic" (New York Times).

Fairchild's poetry covers a wide range, both geographically and intellectually, though it finds its center in the rural Midwest: in oilfields and dying small towns, in taverns, baseball fields, one-screen movie theaters, and skies "vast, mysterious, and bored." Ultimately, its cultural scope--where Mozart stands beside Patsy Cline, with Grunewald, Godel, and Rothko only a subway ride from the Hollywood films of the 1950s--transcends region and decade to explore the relationship of memory to the imagination and the...

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