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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: decline and fall of the Roman Empire
  title info:
    title: Decline and fall of the Roman Empire (Compilation)
  name:
    name part: Tuckner, Matthew
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2025
    copyright date: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 124 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire is a book-length sequence of 53 poems with identical eponymous titles. Heartbreaking and searingly lucid, this debut collection from poet Matthew Tuckner chronicles his best friend's illness and subsequent death from cancer. Its brilliance is not only in recognizing the vastness and particularity of grief, how the loss of a beloved is so personally all encompassing that it splits time irrevocably, separating our personal history into distinct eras of before and after as the governing principles of our lives crumble, but also in joining the discrete experience of one person's sickness to a carcinogenic imperial core, the late-capitalist global order that ensnares all people in toxic landscapes that make us sick.
  note: Matthew Tuckner.
  classification: PS3620.U337 D43 2025
  classification: 811/.6
  identifier: 9781961897540
  identifier: 1961897547
  identifier: 9781961897557
  identifier: 2025003858
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 250206
    record change date: 20260401162410.7
    record identifier: in00005692954