Heartwall

by Richard Jackson

Book Overview

Taking its title from a poem by Paul Celan that is both elegiac and hopeful, but also playing off the notion of the "hart" walls erected to corral deer for a medieval hunt that was more a slaughter, and evoking the very physiology of the heart itself, this collection of poems explores the possibilities for love and feeling in a world besieged by tragedies in Bosnia, Kosovo, Rwanda, and elsewhere. At times lyrical, at times satirical, and written in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558492577
• ISBN13: 9781558492578
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 88 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"