Castaway
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9780822323860
Subjects: Works by individual poets: from c 1900 -; American Contemporary Poetry; English; Poetry; USA; American - General; Postcolonial Studies; cloth; Saint Helena; Slave trade; Women, Black
First sentence: Napoleon, when he was grinding his teeth in the bleak mists of his last stand-growing fat and miserable, cut off from his old standard-bearers and the static of muskets crackling through the hills of Badajoz where the stench made horses rear and foot soldiers sag at the knees-Napoleon named it the worst place.