The magic kingdom
By: Russel Swensen
Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, PA ]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 121
ISBN-13: 9781625579409
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: American literature; Poetry; Fiction
Work titles: Works
Notes: "Author's Magic Kingdom is a glass globe, shattered like the one Charles Foster Kane let fall, a sphere of obsession in which the past is a fugue of vanished music and desolate mornings, glamorous and desperate gestured in a city gone liquid and dream-quick with cocaine and sexual promise. This poet knows from the beginning that intoxication ends, and beloved companions scatter and perish; such dicey kingdoms don't come again. But it is his work, his lament and his privilege to place the unfinished past at the center of his bristling, troubled art."--Mark Doty, author of Deep Lane.