The Treatment of Monuments

by Alan Gilbert

Poetry. THE TREATMENT OF MONUMENTS collects four long poems written in varying styles. The first poem in the book, "Relative Heat Index," is a serial poem in twenty-three parts that attempts to capture the personal and political climate of the United States plunged by its leaders into war following the September 11 attacks. Influenced by Robert Hayden's "Words in the Mourning Time" and George Oppen's "Of Being Numerous," which were similarly written...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0985811102
• ISBN13: 9780985811105
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Splitlevel Texts
• Length: 88 Pages