Metropolis XXX: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

by Robert Fitterman

Poetry. Fitterman's newest book drags Edward Gibbon's historical explorations into the parallel morass of today's mass marketing and consumerism, where Roman Art becomes Airbrush, Roman transportation becomes Bubble Wrap. The third book of Fitterman's long poem Metropolis, METROPOLIS XXX is composed of "found" text, but unlike many poems of that type it also achieves a sustained and consistent critique of contemporary culture. "Instead of restating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1890311162
• ISBN13: 9781890311162
• Release Date: October 2004
• Publisher: Edge Books
• Length: 71 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.