Ecstatic émigré : an ethics of practice /

"Most think of an emigré as one who leaves her native land to find home in another. Claudia Keelan, in essays both personal and critical, enlists poetic company for her journey, engaging both canonical and common figures, from Gertrude Stein to a prophetic Las Vegas cab driver named Caesar. Map...

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Main Author: Keelan, Claudia, 1959- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
Series:Poets on poetry.
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