Imperial, Paperback by Bilgere, George, Brand New, Free shipping in the US
Specifications
| ISBN | 9780822962687 |
| Book Title | Imperial |
| Book Series | Pitt Poetry Ser. |
| Item Length | 9 in |
| Publication Year | 2014 |
| Format | Trade Paperback |
| Language | English |
| Item Height | 0.6 in |
| Author | George Bilgere |
| Genre | Poetry |
| Item Weight | 23.5 Oz |
| Item Width | 6 in |
| Number Of Pages | 72 Pages |
Imperial, Paperback by Bilgere, George, ISBN 0822962683, ISBN-13 9780822962687, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In Imperial, George Bilgere's sixth collection of poetry, he continues his exploration of the beauties, mysteries, and absurdities of being middle-aged and middle-class in mid-America. In poems that range from the Cold War anxieties of the 1950s to the perils and predicaments of an aging Boomer in a post-9/11 world, Bilgere's rueful humor and slippery syntax become a trapdoor that at any moment can plunge the reader into the abyss. In Bilgere's world a yo-yo morphs into an emblem for the atomic bomb. A spot of cancer flames into the Vietnam War. And the death of a baseball player reminds us, in this age of disbelief, of the importance the necessity of .
