Afterlife Of Objects; Author: Chiasson, Dan; Paperback

Author: Chiasson, Dan
Phoenix Poets (Paperback); Paperback
64 pages
Published: November 2002
The University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226103781
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Both intensely personal and deeply rooted in recognizable events of personal, familial, or national significance, The Afterlife of Objects is a kind of dreamed autobiography. With poise andskill, Dan Chiasson divulges the enigmas of the mind of not just one individual but of an entire social world through a beautifully constructed poetic voice that issues from a kind of mythic childhood of our collective, tortured humanity. This sophisticated debut collection offers deceptively simple poems that evoke highly complex states of mind with a voice that has long been listening to the discordant music of contemporary life.Both intensely personal and deeply rooted in recognizable events of a personal, familial, or national significance, The Afterlife of Objects is a kind of dreamed autobiography. Dan Chiasson divulges the enigmas of the mind through a beautifully constructed poetic voice.