Beautiful False Things: Poems; Author: Feldman, Irving; Paperback

Author: Feldman, Irving
Paperback
112 pages
Published: October 2000
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press
ISBN: 0802136575

This tenth collection of Irving Feldman's poems extends what readers and critics have long recognized as a body of work singular in its lyric, visionary, even prophetic intensity; its extravagant wit; its powerful storytelling; and its variety of voices and range of feeling -- playful, tender, ardent, biting, enthralled. Here, among the major poems of Beautiful False Things, the stand-up comic Larry Sunrise of Funny Bones duels with death in Florida; in Oedipus Host, Oedipus arrives from his millennia-long trek to host a TV talk show; and the plucky feminist heroine of Heavenly Muse visits yet another barely worthy male poet. In the tragicomic title poem, translation comes to stand for the dilemmas of expression in a culture that sucks up language and spews it back.Offers a collection of richly lyric and visionary poems about a diverse cast of characters from the acclaimed author of The Pripet Marshes and Leaping Clear. Original.