description: “Seething Nation! Vast &amp; Flowing! Day &amp; Night &amp; Dawn!” Bold, sweeping, investigative, rhapsodic, hilarious, heart-rendering, thought-provoking, Edward Sanders’ three-volume, A History in Verse uniquely and brilliantly tells “the story of America...a million stranded fabric / woven by billions of hands &amp; minds.” It is by turns angry, wistful, defiant and extremely funny re-inventions of historical and biographical worlds, a highly original mix of chronicle, anecdote, document, reportage, paean and polemic.Volume 2 1940-1961 begins and ends with America on the brink of a war and great changes―in 1940 “with greed &amp; evil / somewhat in check / when compared to Europe,” and in 1961, “at the beginning of a decade / that revealed the best &amp; the worst / of a great nation.”Sanders’ reinventions of past worlds offer a moving masque of time constructed out of multiple narrative aspects and tones, skillfully and variously implemented by a poetic style of compacted history.
language: English
title: America: A History in Verse, Vol 2
titlecomplete: America: A History in Verse, Vol 2
genres: Poetry
ratings_count: 16
series: America: A History in Verse
publisher: Black Sparrow Press