Portrait in a Spoon

by James Cummins

Book Overview

By turns comic and poignant, the poems in Portrait in a Spoon explore the uses and abuses of language as it intersects the uses and abuses of power. Taking George Eliot's observation that even Milton, looking at himself in a spoon, would have to "submit to have the facial angle of a bumpkin," James Cummins investigates the question of identity--the illusions we sustain, the passions we conceal, and the stories that surround both.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570031924
• ISBN13: 9781570031922
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 79 Pages
• Weight: 0.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"