Selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as one of five volumes published in 1996 in the National Poetry Series "Marcus Cafag???a is a poet who shies at nothing, who will not turn away from what he sees--ordinary people struggling against, and sometimes breaking on, the wheel of their fate. The Broken World is a deeply humane and accomplished first book--probing, watchful, compassionate, and necessary." -- Edward Hirsch "I challenge anyone to be unmoved by The Broken World. Cafag???a never gives up in these ...
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Selected by Yusef Komunyakaa as one of five volumes published in 1996 in the National Poetry Series "Marcus Cafag???a is a poet who shies at nothing, who will not turn away from what he sees--ordinary people struggling against, and sometimes breaking on, the wheel of their fate. The Broken World is a deeply humane and accomplished first book--probing, watchful, compassionate, and necessary." -- Edward Hirsch "I challenge anyone to be unmoved by The Broken World. Cafag???a never gives up in these difficult, heart-rending poems." -- Jim Daniels, editor of Letters to America: Contemporary American Poetry on Race The Broken World, the powerful debut of a poet of great depth and maturity, begins with narratives of individuals caught up in circumstance--a distressed girl on a Detroit overpass, a boy shooting baskets at a crisis center. By the end of the slim volume, Marcus Cafag???a has led us through the postwar New York of Jewish Holocaust survivors to his native Michigan, where his marriage ended tragically with his wife's suicide, a death that has come to symbolize for Cafag???a the confusion and madness of the twentieth century.
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PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
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Good+ 9780252065507. B&W Photographs; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 60 pages; Slim paperback in glossy pictorial covers. Tight bright and fresh. Underlining and notation pencilled to the first several poems and prior owner's name penned to title page. Just a hint of shelf evidence to covers. Signed and incribed by the author to the title page. VG; Signed by Author.
