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Past/Present and Other Poems

Past/Present and Other Poems

Kaplan, Robert

Paperback

General Poetry

Publisher Price: $20.00

ISBN10: 1735147893
ISBN13: 9781735147895
Publisher: Poets of Queens
Published: Sep 7 2023
Pages: 70
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.17 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Moving between narrative and reflection, and reveling in the genre of the long poem, Robert Kaplan uses detailed imagery to invite the reader into a slice of 1980s New York City: the urban landscape, the national politics, gay exuberance and loss, and, weaving throughout, the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. The title poem, Past/Present, which is the first half of the book, sprawls through layers of time, failed romance, geographic movement, and growing self-awareness as the narrator sheds multiple selves to find his core. The poems in the second half of the book (re)create a sensory and personal landscape which becomes a metaphorical and meditative platform upon which to address questions of memory, identity, relationships, and how to navigate through an increasingly unstable world.

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