Dyer's Thistle

by Peter Balakian

In Dyer's Thistle, Peter Balakian writes a severe and sensual poetry that unfolds discoveries of myth and history. He creates a landscape in which the private self is often inundated by messages of global suffering and must confront an American spiritual predicament. Inventing a language of condensation and leaps, Balakian probes a contemporary notion of the sublime as it oscillates between terror and beauty. In poems like "The Oriental Rug" and "American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0887482333
• ISBN13: 9780887482335
• Release Date: April 1996
• Publisher: Carnegie-Mellon University Press
• Length: 80 Pages
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.5"