Long Live a Hunger to Feed Each Other: Poems
By (Author) Jerome Badanes
Introduction by Nancy Willard
Afterword by Gerald Stern
Open City Books
Open City Books
12th June 2007
United States
General
Non Fiction
811.54
Paperback
96
Width 139mm, Height 215mm
155g
The author of the cult novel, The Final Opus of Leon Solomon, makes a posthumous appearance with this powerful poetry manuscript. Written at the height of the anti-war movement, these poems bring together disparate threads of different historical epochsWorld War II, the rhythms of the post-Beat era, and the atmosphere in America during the Vietnam warhistorical periods that Badanes poems make fresh and which feel highly relevant to today's culture and political climate. Featuring insightful commentary by National Book Award winner Gerald Stern and Nancy Willard, this volume gives us another chance to experience the work of a master novelist, poet, and filmmaker.
From today's most widely read poetry imprint comes a powerful antiwar manuscript by a "masterly"