Limousine, Midnight Blue
Author | : Jamey Hecht |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
ISBN-10 | : 1597091286 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781597091282 |
Rating | : 4/5 (86 Downloads) |
Download or read book Limousine, Midnight Blue written by Jamey Hecht and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sequence of fifty 14-line poems uses the Zapruder Film of President Kennedy's murder as a prism through which to view America and the world. Refracted rays touch on crime and punishment; guilt and responsibility; charisma and love; the dying victim's experience during the stretched-out seconds of his violation and death; and the dark world of war profiteering, narco-traffic, and deceit where the facts of power determine history. Epic tradition (e.g., Homer, Dante, Milton) shares these pages with science, religion, and popular culture, now funny and now horrifying. Limousine, Midnight Blue is a haunted book about a haunted film of an event whose hungry ghosts still walk the American unconscious, rattling their chains louder every year. "