num_pages: 120
description: Rosen creates a novel in poems, through a questing alter ego Gordon Penn who holds to hopefulness amid circumstances that will have none of it. Each poem relates another episode in Penn's ongoing confrontation with contemporary society.
language: English
title: Traveling in Notions: The Stories of Gordon Penn
titlecomplete: Traveling in Notions: The Stories of Gordon Penn (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry)
ratings_count: 2
series: James Dickey Contemporary Poetry
publisher: University of South Carolina Press