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Book

13th balloon : a poem

Call Number

  • 811 B581 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Port Townsend, Washington : Copper Canyon Press, [2020]

Physical Description

93 pages ; 23 cm

Summary

In his fourth collection, 13th Balloon, Mark Bibbins turns his candid eye to the American AIDS crisis. With quiet consideration and dark wit, Bibbins addresses the majority of his poems to Mark Crast, his friend and lover who died from AIDS at the early age of 25. Every broken line and startling linguistic turn grapples with the genre of elegy: what does it mean to experience personal loss, Bibbins seems to ask, amidst a greater societal tragedy?

Notes

"Lannan Literary Selections"

Subjects

Genres

Poetry.