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Dismantling the Hills

Dismantling the Hills

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 0822960079
ISBN13: 9780822960072
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: Sep 3 2008
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.90 Depth: 7.60
Language: English
WINNER OF THE 2007 AGNES LYNCH STARRETT POETRY PRIZE

Dismantling the Hills is a testament to working-class, rural American life. In a world of machinists, loggers, mill workers, and hairdressers, the poems collected here bear witness to a landscape, an industry, and a people teetering on the edge of ruin. From tightly constructed narratives to expansive and surreal meditations, the various styles in this book not only reflect the poet's range, but his willingness to delve into his obsessions from countless angles Full of despair yet never self-loathing, full of praise yet never nostalgic, Dismantling the Hills is both ode and elegy. McGriff's vision of blue-collar life is one of complication and contradiction, and the poems he makes are authentic, unwavering, and unapologetically American.

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