Quiet City: Poems

by Susan Aizenberg

Poetry. Many of these poems are set in the mid-twentieth century and feature such personae as writers Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams and photographer Roman Vishniac, as well as less-public figures in Brooklyn, Nebraska, and elsewhere, all of whom confront the wounds of love, family, history, and time. "In poem after poem," David Jauss writes, Aizenberg "reveals an astonishingly wide-ranging and deeply empathetic imagination, not to mention the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1886157987
• ISBN13: 9781886157989
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: BkMk Press of the University of Missouri-Kans
• Length: 76 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 4.9" x 6.8"