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" War bird / "
David Gewanter.
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BL
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1007288
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b761658
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| Main Entry
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Gewanter, David
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| Title & Author
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War bird /\ David Gewanter.
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| Publication Statement
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Chicago :: University of Chicago Press,, 2009.
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Phoenix poets
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1 online resource (xi, 73 pages)
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| ISBN
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0226289796
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: 1282426478
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: 9780226289793
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: 9781282426474
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0226289788
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9780226289786
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Includes bibliographical references.
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| Abstract
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In his third book of poems, David Gewanter takes on wartime America, showing our personal costs and inextricable complicities. The constructs of our social lives, the conventions of our political values, the ambitions of our private fantasies--all these collide comically and tragically. Here, the far right marries the far left, and the sacred is undone by the profane. Gewanter's ironic vision pulls together details from science, history, philosophy, the disappearing dailies, and the emotional life of an engaged and singular mind into poems on the move with tense rhythms, rich correspondences, a.
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American literature.
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American poetry.
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American literature.
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American poetry.
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POETRY / General.
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| Dewey Classification
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811/.54
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PS3557.E897W37 2009eb
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