XX - by Campbell McGrath (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong>Pulitzer Prize finalist</strong> </p><p>A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets--a stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.</p><p><em>XX</em> is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath's astonishing sequence of one hundred poems--one per year--written in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao, Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley. Based on years of historical research and cultural investigation, <em>XX</em> turns poetry into an archival inquiry and a choral documentary. Hollywood and Hiroshima, Modernism and propaganda, Bob Dylan and Walter Benjamin--its range of interest encompasses the entire century of art and culture, invention and struggle.</p><p>Elegiac and celebratory, deeply tragic and wickedly funny, <em>XX</em> is a unique collection from this acknowledged master of historical poetry, and his most ambitious book yet.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets--a stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.</p><p><em>XX</em> is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath's astonishing sequence of one hundred poems--one per year--written in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao, Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley. Based on years of historical research and cultural investigation, <em>XX</em> turns poetry into an archival inquiry and a choral documentary. Hollywood and Hiroshima, Modernism and propaganda, Bob Dylan and Walter Benjamin--its range of interest encompasses the entire century of art and culture, invention and struggle.</p><p>Elegiac and celebratory, deeply tragic and wickedly funny, <em>XX</em> is a unique collection from this acknowledged master of historical poetry, and his most ambitious book yet.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Expansive. . . . The richness of the book . . . comes from McGrath's deep understanding of history - especially the latter part of the century- and his ability to choose memories that will resonate with readers."--<em>Washington Post</em><br><br>"XX...seems to launch its own defense of the humanities and their presence in our lives"--<em>New Yorker</em><br><br>"A funny, learned, awestruck ode to the last century."--O magazine<br><br>"Campbell McGrath's whizzing, ambitious project captures each of the 20th century's years in the voice of some great cultural icons. . . . This is a book of ideas. But even more than this, it is a book for velocity itself."--NPR<br>
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