Ecstatic Émigré: An Ethics of Practice

by Claudia Keelan

Most think of an ?migr? as one who leaves her native land to find home in another. Claudia Keelan, in essays both personal and critical, enlists poetic company for her journey, engaging both canonical and common figures, from Gertrude Stein to a prophetic Las Vegas cab driver named Caesar. Mapping her own peripatetic evolution in poetry and her nomadic life, she also engages with Christian and Buddhist doctrines on the virtues of dispossession.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472037196
• ISBN13: 9780472037193
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.9"