XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century
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A poetic history of the twentieth century from one of our most beloved, popular, and highly lauded poets—a stirring, strikingly original, intensely imagined recreation of the most potent voices and searing moments that have shaped our collective experience.
XX is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath’s astonishing sequence of one hundred poems—one per year—written in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao, Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley. Based on years of historical research and cultural investigation, XX turns poetry into an archival inquiry and a choral documentary. Hollywood and Hiroshima, Modernism and propaganda, Bob Dylan and Walter Benjamin—its range of interest encompasses the entire century of art and culture, invention and struggle.
Elegiac and celebratory, deeply tragic and wickedly funny, XX is a unique collection from this acknowledged master of historical poetry, and his most ambitious book yet.
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Campbell McGrath. (2016). XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century. HarperCollins.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Campbell McGrath. 2016. XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century. HarperCollins.
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Campbell McGrath is the author of nine previous books, eight of them available from Ecco Press. He has received numerous prestigious awards for his poetry, including a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant," and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He has been published in the New York Times, Harper's Magazine, the Paris Review, the New Yorker, Poetry, and Ploughshares, among other prominent publications, and his poetry is represented in dozens of anthologies. He teaches in the MFA program at Florida International University, and lives with his family in Miami Beach.
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XX is award-winning poet Campbell McGrath’s astonishing sequence of one hundred poems—one per year—written in a vast range of forms, and in the voices of figures as varied as Picasso and Mao, Frida Kahlo and Elvis Presley. Based on years of historical research and cultural investigation, XX turns poetry into an archival inquiry and a choral documentary. Hollywood and Hiroshima, Modernism and propaganda, Bob Dylan and Walter Benjamin—its range of interest encompasses the entire century of art and culture, invention and struggle.
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March 1, 2016
"What lasts, what endures, as Shakespeare knew, is this:/ the story of a life." In his latest collection, MacArthur Fellow McGrath (In the Kingdom of the Sea Monkeys) gives us many stories, marching us year by year through the 20th century to tell its story by capturing an important individual or moment. Many of those represented are artists (Orson Welles claims the quote above), which deftly shows the cross-hatching of art and history; "Hearts of Darkness: Freud and Conrad (1901)" opens, "Messages from the interior: darkness & illumination,/ dreams and blood," then goes on to reference proper Vienna and colonial-era "Belgian savagery." Figures from Pablo Picasso to Chairman Mao recur, and even key artifacts such as Dupont's Fiber 66 appear. McGrath ably captures the flow of history, though sometimes it feels as if he's just getting through the facts ("The war changed me. Cambridge is a fond memory," from "Wittgenstein: Letter to Bertrand Russell (1919)." What's best are the sudden, affecting moments in the swirl of things: says Martha, the last passenger pigeon, "They are not like to treat you any kinder/ beneath a sky that echoes only the longing in their hearts." VERDICT This ambitious collection will especially satisfy those who appreciate narrative poetry. [See Prepub Alert, 12/7/15.]--Barbara Hoffert, Library Journal
Copyright 2016 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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