The Magic Kingdom

by Russel Swensen

Poetry. "Russel Swensen's MAGIC KINGDOM is a glass globe, shattered like the one Charles Foster Kane let fall, a sphere of obsession in which the past is a fugue of vanished music and desolate mornings, glamorous and desparate gestures in a city gone liquid and dream-quick with cocaine and sexual promise. This poet knows from the beginning that intoxication ends, and beloved companions scatter and perish; such dicey kingdoms don't come again. But...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1625579403
• ISBN13: 9781625579409
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Black Lawrence Press
• Length: 121 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.4"