What We Did While We Made More Guns

by Dorothy Barresi

The poems in What We Did While We Made More Guns investigate the place where economic failure meets a widening acculturation of violence--a kind of Great Acceleration of soul extinction set in this spectacularly uneasy moment in American history. Cutting, comic, sorrowful, at times terrified, at times resolute, the poems tilt along the high cliff's edge of identity anxiety and American moral uncertainty, where each of us plays our part in the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822965232
• ISBN13: 9780822965237
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 8.9"