Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel

Benjamin Grossberg

Description

"Reading The Auctioneer Bangs His Gavel, I had the sense of finding a poet I'd been looking for unawares: one who intertwines a survey of human sexuality (and gay sexuality at that) with theological questions; one who tackles ambitious poetic projects without sounding pretentious; one who writes fables using the ordinary materials of daily reality; one who balances the Jewish sources of the Western tradition with its Hellenic counterpart; one who knows how to be serious with the assistance of laughter; one who can tell a story and excerpt his own autobiography as a way of gaining larger perspectives on experience. 'No things but in ideas,' seems to be his aesthetic motto, and that has served him well in his goal-to declare that we are free to follow our natures in the pursuit of happiness."-Alfred Corn

Sujets

• USA
• United States of America
• Poetry
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: The Kent State University Press
• Date de parution: 14 décembre 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781612774763
• Langue: English

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