Tocqueville
By: Khaled Mattawa
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: A Green Rose Book
Publisher: New Issues Poetry & Prose / Western Michigan Univ.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Kalamazoo, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 71
ISBN-13: 9781930974906
Description: The author is concerned with the ramifications of a new global culture that most American poets have thus far ignored and neglected, partly out of incomprehension, partly out of fear. By setting himself against such timidity, Mattawa offers his most sustained and experimental reckoning with matters of cultural and social witness. Tocqueville is part personal lyric, part jeremiad, part shooting script, and part troubled homage to the great wry chronicler of American society evoked in the book's title. It is a book of relentless invention that is also relentlessly urgent and that is a very rare thing indeed. Khaled Mattawa is, quite simply, one of the finest, fiercest, and most original poets of his generation--David Wojahn.