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Availability:In StockContributor:Robert PolitoSeries:Phoenix Poets (Paperback)Publish date:2013-06-19Pages:88
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226103655ISBN-10:022610365XUPC:9780226103655Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.30 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCVY0JDRR5

Hollywood & God is a virtuosic performance, filled with crossings back and forth from cinematic chiaroscuro to a kind of unsettling desperation and disturbing-even lurid-hallucination. From the Baltimore Catechism to the great noir films of the last century to today's Elvis impersonators and Paris Hilton (an impersonator of a different sort), Robert Polito tracks the snares, abrasions, and hijinks of personal identities in our society of the spectacle, a place where who we say we are, and who (we think) we think we are fade in and out of consciousness, like flickers of light dancing tantalizingly on the silver screen. Mixing lyric and essay, collage and narrative, memoir and invention, Hollywood & God is an audacious book, as contemporary as it is historical, as sly and witty as it is devastatingly serious.

Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226103655ISBN-10:022610365XUPC:9780226103655Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:AmericanSize:8.30 x 6.00 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCVY0JDRR5
Robert Polito is president of the Poetry Foundation in Chicago. He is the author of Doubles, also published by the University of Chicago Press. He was director of the New School Graduate Writing Program, and he received the National Book Critics Circle Award for his biography of novelist Jim Thompson, Savage Art.


Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Robert Polito

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