Book Details
Format
Kindle
Language
English
Published
Jun 11, 2001
Publisher
Beacon Press
ISBN-10
0807068489
ISBN-13
9780807068489
Description
Winner of the 1998 Barnard New Women Poets PrizeThe poems in Jena Osman's first volume embody the poem as performance, revealing the tensions between narrative coherence and Brechtian self-consciousness, and our constitution by "characters" of all types. Playful, mysterious, and challenging, The Character is for anyone interested in the inscription of power by means of language.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Genres
Poetry