The First Inhabitants of Arcadia

by Christopher Bursk and Cleo Qian

Book Overview

Herman Melville, Matthew Arnold, Sarah Orne Jewett, Dusty Rhodes, and Hoyt Wilhelm skinny-dip and pick up gondoliers and cut figure eights into the ice in Christopher Bursk's new collection. But the main cast of characters for these poems is the alphabet itself, "the first inhabitants of Arcadia, / now homesick, curious exiles from Eden." Here are a boy's first investigations into the nature of language as he studies the backs of baseball cards, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557288135
• ISBN13: 9781557288134
• Release Date: March 2006
• Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"