Ebook {Epub PDF} Cruelty by Ai

In Vice, a collection of seventeen new poems accompanies several selected poems from Ai’s earlier works (Cruelty, Killing Floor, Sin, Fate, and Greed). Spanning well over twenty-five years, these dramatic mono-logues visualize the harsh reality of vice in America. Ai, however, does not define vice by the measure of virtue.  · Ai Cruelty Thunder’s Mouth Press ‘When Cruelty was published in , I read the collection repeatedly, transported by the mystery in the poems and by the politics of gender on almost every page. The way the first poem in the collection, “Twenty-Year Marriage,” opens is a clue to this poet’s psychology: “You keep me waiting in a truck / with its one good wheel stuck in a ditch, / while .  · Available now at www.doorway.ru - Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin, New York - - First edition. - Dust Jacket Included - Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Some damp staining to the bottom of the boards. Toning to the white jacket. The first collection of poetry by the African-American author who won the National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and.

Killing Floor (), the volume that followed Cruelty, includes a poem called "The Kid" which is spoken in the voice of a boy who has just murdered his family. Sin () contains more complex dramatic monologues as Ai assumes actual personae, from Joe McCarthy to the Kennedy brothers. Ai's characters tend to speak in a flat even. Available now at www.doorway.ru - Hardcover - Houghton Mifflin, New York - - First edition. - Dust Jacket Included - Hardcover. First edition. A near fine book in a near fine dust jacket. Some damp staining to the bottom of the boards. Toning to the white jacket. The first collection of poetry by the African-American author who won the National Book Award for Poetry for Vice: New and. Ai Cruelty Thunder's Mouth Press 'When Cruelty was published in , I read the collection repeatedly, transported by the mystery in the poems and by the politics of gender on almost every page. The way the first poem in the collection, "Twenty-Year Marriage," opens is a clue to this poet's psychology: "You keep me waiting in a.

Ai Ogawa (born Florence Anthony) was an American poet who who described herself as 1/2 Japanese, 1/8 Choctaw-Chickasaw, 1/4 Black, 1/16 Irish and as well as Southern Cheyenne and Comanche. She is known for her mastery of the dramatic monologue as a poetic form, as well as for taking on dark, controversial topics in her work. Ai Cruelty Thunder’s Mouth Press ‘When Cruelty was published in , I read the collection repeatedly, transported by the mystery in the poems and by the politics of gender on almost every page. The way the first poem in the collection, “Twenty-Year Marriage,” opens is a clue to this poet’s psychology: “You keep me waiting in a. This book: Cruelty/Killing Floor by Ali is a gem. This classic reprint series make available Ai's first two classic collection, including the Lamont Poetry Selection Killing Floor, in one volume Her poems are crystal clear, immediately engaging and often apocalyptic.