{"product_id":"doing-lucretius-9780807125519","title":"Doing Lucretius","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDoing Lucretius\u003c\/i\u003e, Sidney Burris crosses a sensibility shaped by a classical education with a contemporary culture that finds such an education increasingly remote and forbidding. Molding his artistry and buttressing his response to modern society with the literature of the ancient world, Burris displays in his work an unabashed reverence for the various traditions--literary, cultural, familial--that guide him, but maintains that these conventions must now and again be interrogated and overthrown. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems trace several themes through the poet's boyhood to the threshold of his middle age: flight, escape, distance, cultural displacement--themes that are strained by the counter-pressures of literary, political, and artistic impulses. The desire for flight and its attendant concerns are foremost among these motifs--flight to the sea, to love in all its varied and alluring forms, even to dying in its many manifestations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith these modes of motion comes an obsession with historical characters who have had their own travails resolved by flight, both psychological and actual: Achilles, Ulysses, Circe, and above all Lucretius, Virgil, and Dante, the perennial sustainers. There are also friendships recorded throughout the volume that arise out of the poet's deep need for a passionate community of nourishing relationships to help him survive the difficulties of a well-lived life, which he describes in \"The Celebration\" as \"the art \/ of living art \/ as if art's enough.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending southern narrative language with the melodic intensity of the impassioned lyric voices of the classical world, \u003ci\u003eDoing Lucretius\u003c\/i\u003e is a profound and deeply satisfying collection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sidney Burris\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e LSU Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.87h x 5.90w x 0.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780807125519\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSidney Burris\u003c\/b\u003e, associate professor of English and director of the Fulbright College Honors Program at the University of Arkansas, is the author of the poetry collection \u003ci\u003eA Day at the Races\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSeamus Heaney and the Pastoral Tradition.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"LSU Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40161539883123,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_6d3e3a87-fbc9-44c1-a629-eaf6bcde5dfc.jpg?v=1654954715","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/doing-lucretius-9780807125519","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}