Twenty First Century Blues

by Richard Cecil

Death, fame, art, and religion become comic subjects in Twenty First Century Blues, the fourth collection from Richard Cecil.Whether elegizing his predecessors, predicting his own end, channeling Dickinson's "corpse-eye-view of stony death," or imagining Yeats living in Indiana and dealing with English department politics, Cecil tempers his morbidity with a straightforward, tender brand of humor and a refreshing honesty about the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0809325977
• ISBN13: 9780809325979
• Release Date: August 2004
• Publisher: Southern Illinois University Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"