Usher
Subtitle: poems
By: B.H. Fairchild.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 122
ISBN-13: 9780393065756
Description: From Manhattan to the rural Midwest—one of our most distinguished poets offers a verbal cinema of America.

Employing dramatic monologues, among other forms, Usher embraces a range of subject matter and modes, from the elegiac to the comic. At its heart, however, is the long poem “Trilogy,” consisting of three interrelated dramatic monologues spoken by a circus performer, a theological student and part-time usher, and Hart Crane.