We Look Like This

We Look Like This anatomizes how history, violence, power, lust and mortality at work on us. Burt's formal, muscular language evokes war, want, cruelty and hope, and a childhood among tough Jews' in Philadelphia, dominated by his father Joe, son of Ukrainian immigrants, butcher, boxer and, last, coastal fisherman.

© 2012 Carcanet Poetry (E-kirja): 9781847776334

Julkaisupäivä

E-kirja: 27. heinäkuuta 2012