American loneliness : poems /
"American Loneliness is peopled with the famous and the not-so-famous, tenanted by the Wright Brothers and Nettie Potter Bentley, Joseph Kennedy and James Brown and Jay Gatsby. America, as presented, bests brave women and men alike: "My mother is comfortable with fury. She accepts it. Like...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sandpoint, Idaho :
Lost Horse Press,
[2019]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Summary: | "American Loneliness is peopled with the famous and the not-so-famous, tenanted by the Wright Brothers and Nettie Potter Bentley, Joseph Kennedy and James Brown and Jay Gatsby. America, as presented, bests brave women and men alike: "My mother is comfortable with fury. She accepts it. Like she accepted the contents of the pockets of her dead brothers, miscellanea handed her in a morgue. She is a woman who does not defer readily to men." Roy Bentley shows us the world as a kind of Wright Flyer soaring above an Ohio field, the hoped-for miracle we let be enough for now"-- |
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| Physical Description: | 85 pages ; 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0999199471 9780999199473 |