Sufficiency of the Actual

by Kevin Stein

Book Overview

In this ambitious collection, Kevin Stein enters the volatile intersection of private lives and larger public history. In poems variously formal and experimental, improvisational and narrative, wisely silly and playfully forlorn, Stein renders the human carnival flexed across the tattooed bulk of "history's bicep."

Musical and refreshingly unaffected, Stein's poems yoke the domains of high and low art. His poems address subjects by turns surprising,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252076001
• ISBN13: 9780252076008
• Release Date: November 2008
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.7"