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In Dyer's Thistle, Peter Balakian writes a severe and sensual poetry that unfolds discoveries of myth and history. He creates a landscape in which the private self is often inundated by messages of global suffering and must confront an American spiritual predicament. Inventing a language of condensation and leaps, Balakian probes a contemporary notion of the sublime as it oscillates between terror and beauty. In poems like "The Oriental Rug" and "American Dreaming," he finds the threads back to the ancient culture of ...

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Dyer's Thistle 1997, Carnegie-Mellon University Press

ISBN-13: 9780887482328

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Dyer's Thistle 1996, Carnegie-Mellon University Press

ISBN-13: 9780887482335

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