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The Country of Lost Sons
Jeffrey Thomson
其他書名
Poems
出版Parlor Press LLC, 2004-02-08
主題Poetry / American / General
ISBN16023586219781602358621
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=k9VJEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Jeffrey Thomson’s second collection of poems, The Country of Lost Sons, investigates the narrative environment of childhood, especially the way violence is inscribed on children through myth, culture, and legend. The poems trace the growth of the author’s young son (his vulnerability and equal potential for violence) across a landscape of rewritten myth and narrative. From the Trojan War (bracketed as it is by the deaths of two children, Iphegenia and Astyanax) through the Biblical accounts of Job, Jeremiah, and Jephthah to the modern tragedies of the war in Kosovo, AIDS, and the contemporary culture of violence, the poems build to a culmination of fear that is only tempered by love, grace, and the redemptive power of storytelling itself.