The Deathbed Playboy
Subtitle: Poems
Publisher: Eastern Washington University Press
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 81
ISBN-13: 9780910055482
Subjects: Poetry texts & anthologies; Dacey, Philip - Poems & Criticism; Poetry; American - General
Description: Dacey here ranges widely in tones, strategies and forms, a diversity appropriate for one who characteristically meditates on American identity. In these poems, Dacey winds together many strands - our national pop culture, the vagaries of human discourse, death, and sexuality - and frames them in a narrative as comic as it is plangent. Surprises in the book include cameo appearances by George Bush and Florence Nightingale as well as a take on J. S. Bach that owes something to the Keystone Cops.