Tocqueville

by Khaled Mattawa

"When I first read Khaled Mattawa's Tocqueville some years ago, it rewired my brain and pummeled my heart. A daring meditation on what it means to be a poet and a citizen at the center of American empire, Tocqueville was an astonishing departure from Mattawa's previous lyrically driven work, declaring that it no longer suffices to sing-- even to sing of dark times, as Bertolt Brecht proposed. Reading these poems today, in this timely second edition,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936970619
• ISBN13: 9781936970612
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: New Issues Poetry and Prose
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.8" x 8.8"