Who's Afraid of Helen of Troy?: An Essay on Love

by David Lazar

David Lazar extends the language of prose poetry, mixing the classical and the high modern, the song and dance man and the Odyssean. Nothing, he finds, is as far apart as we think, except for the chaos and order, innocence and experience. Lazar's voice is a sacred last resort: something's gotta give. The voice in these poems is semi-autobiographical and performative: masked yet emotionally raw. Each poem draws on the features of modernist poetry,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0990322114
• ISBN13: 9780990322115
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Etruscan Press
• Length: 72 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.9" x 8.8"