Things Come on: An Amneoir

by Joseph Harrington

Book Overview

National and family disasters converge in this radically new kind of memoir

Things Come On is a broken and sutured hybrid of forms, combining poetry, prose narration, primary documents, dramatic dialogue, and pictures. The narrative is woven around the almost exact concurrence of the Watergate scandal and the dates of the poet's mother's illness and death from breast cancer, and weaves together private and public tragedies--showing...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0819574341
• ISBN13: 9780819574343
• Release Date: February 2014
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"