Mystery Train

by David Wojahn

Book Overview

David Wojahn deftly mixes personal history and recollections with a wide range of character studies and monologues, but the center of this book is a sequence of thirty-five poems, mainly sonnets, in which rock and roll music is a strange, kaleidoscopic mirror of recent American history. Combining rhapsodic homage, grim humor, human folly, and tragedy, these poems are like nothing else in contemporary poetry.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 082295429X
• ISBN13: 9780822954293
• Release Date: May 1990
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"