Madame X

by William Logan

Book Overview

A new collection by one of our foremost masters of free verse as well as formal poetry. The moody poems in Madame X , the author's tenth collection, find their subjects in the byways of the past two centuries. Henry James visits his birthplace, the most beautiful woman in Europe ends up in a barrel at a fun fair, and a minor writer succumbs to tuberculosis at a German spa. In the title poem, the portrait of Madame X offers our century a lesson in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 014312238X
• ISBN13: 9780143122388
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 95 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 8.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher