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Luster: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium
Luster: Science Fiction and the Next Millennium
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Vivid exploration of what the world of objects reveals about our lives.
Don Bogen's latest volume, Luster, takes on everything from bullhorns to the cultivation of olive trees in poems that are sharp-edged and open to surprise. They capture not just things themselves but the essential contexts--history, power, the personal and the social--that give them meaning. The stylistic dexterity and range of approaches here make the book as rich as the world it engages. Luster includes evocations of place and memory, character studies of figures from Coleridge to Tarzan, a verse epistle, and an extended meditation on machines in our daily lives, all within an overarching vision. From racehorses to waterwheels to great cities, Bogen illuminates things that go, in both their dynamism and their inevitable decay. Luster traces the sheen of human activity that clings to the world around us: imperfect, irrevocably marred by time, but always gleaming.
Author: Don Bogen
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 11/03/2003
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.28h x 4.86w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9780819566508
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2020 pg. 66
Don Bogen's latest volume, Luster, takes on everything from bullhorns to the cultivation of olive trees in poems that are sharp-edged and open to surprise. They capture not just things themselves but the essential contexts--history, power, the personal and the social--that give them meaning. The stylistic dexterity and range of approaches here make the book as rich as the world it engages. Luster includes evocations of place and memory, character studies of figures from Coleridge to Tarzan, a verse epistle, and an extended meditation on machines in our daily lives, all within an overarching vision. From racehorses to waterwheels to great cities, Bogen illuminates things that go, in both their dynamism and their inevitable decay. Luster traces the sheen of human activity that clings to the world around us: imperfect, irrevocably marred by time, but always gleaming.
Author: Don Bogen
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 11/03/2003
Pages: 88
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 9.28h x 4.86w x 0.28d
ISBN: 9780819566508
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 10/01/2020 pg. 66
About the Author
DON BOGEN is Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati. He is the author of The Known World (Wesleyan, 1997) and After the Splendid Display (Wesleyan, 1986).
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