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Author Name: McClatchy, J. D.
Title: Ten Commandments
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Type: Red Paper-Covered Boards
Edition: First Edition Stated
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Publisher: New York, NY Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. 1998
ISBN Number: 0375401377 / 9780375401374
Seller ID: 00025
McClatchy has written a book-length sequence of poems that plot the rules we were raised on, rules we forget but can't evade. Here is the whole underworld of desire, its tasks and perversions. Here are the iron laws and the way the heart is shaped by them, even as it prefers betrayal, adultery, murder, or greed. McClatchy draws on intimate autobiographical details, and on a range of historical incidents that includes an eerie account of Proust in a brothel and a chilling glimpse of Eichmann in Argentina. When McClatchy's previous book, "The Rest of the Way" was published in 1990, he was given an Award inLiterature by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, whose citation concluded, "it may be that no more eloquent poet will emerge in his American generation." With "Ten Commandments", there can be no question of his mastery. Here is that rare eloquence indeed, charged with passion and raised to a remarkable new power. Book is AsNew with AsNew dustwrapper.
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