Poets of Queens
Past/Present and Other Poems
Key Metrics
- Robert Kaplan
- Poets of Queens
- Paperback
- 9781735147895
- 9 X 6 X 0.17 inches
- 0.25 pounds
- Poetry > General
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Moving between narrative and reflection, and reveling in the genre of the long poem, Robert Kaplan uses detailed imagery to invite the reader into a slice of 1980s New York City: the urban landscape, the national politics, gay exuberance and loss, and, weaving throughout, the shadow of the AIDS epidemic. The title poem, Past/Present, which is the first half of the book, sprawls through layers of time, failed romance, geographic movement, and growing self-awareness as the narrator sheds multiple selves to find his core. The poems in the second half of the book (re)create a sensory and personal landscape which becomes a metaphorical and meditative platform upon which to address questions of memory, identity, relationships, and how to navigate through an increasingly unstable world.
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