TY  - GEN
T1  - Why/Why Not.
T2  - New California poetry.
A1  - Ronk, Martha
LA  - English
PP  - CA
PB  - University of California Press
YR  - 2003
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn773564888
AB  - Why/Why Not presents a speaker caught in quandaries created by changing perspectives, fervors, and locales. Why do we act one way here and another there; why can't a mind stay made up; why do we hate and love at the same time; why does memory fade or insist; why does the ordinary seem so uncanny? These questions are captured in lines that collide and merge, in irreverent and offhand jibes, and in plaintive repetitions. Why/Why Not moves across a vivid terrain--the stage of Hamlet, Phillip Marlowe's Los Angeles, Prague, paintings and gardens--to push through a tangle of ways to make sense of the w.
OP  - 101
CN  - PS3568.O574
SN  - 9780520937116
SN  - 0520937112
SN  - 9786612762895
SN  - 6612762896
SN  - 1282762893
SN  - 9781282762893
SN  - 0520236238
SN  - 9780520236233
SN  - 0520238117
SN  - 9780520238114
KW  - American poetry : 20th century.
KW  - Poésie américaine : 20e siècle.
KW  - POETRY : American : General.
KW  - POETRY : General.
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 1900-1999
KW  - american poets.
KW  - beauty.
KW  - changing perspectives.
KW  - changing places.
KW  - complex.
KW  - contemporary poetry.
KW  - exploration of language.
KW  - famous poets.
KW  - female speaker.
KW  - hamlet.
KW  - human experience.
KW  - human thought.
KW  - intellectual poetry.
KW  - irreverent.
KW  - literature students.
KW  - los angeles.
KW  - making sense.
KW  - memory.
KW  - narrative poetry.
KW  - phillip marlowe.
KW  - philosophy.
KW  - poetic language.
KW  - poetry collection.
KW  - poetry.
KW  - prague.
KW  - questioning.
KW  - realism.
KW  - repetition.
KW  - thought provoking.
KW  - touching.
KW  - women authors.
ER  -