Graffiti Calculus
Автор:
Mary-Sherman Willis, 92 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
9781625490568
The edgy poems of Mary-Sherman Willis' GRAFFITI CALCULUS engage the daily calculus of the urban scene with deep intelligence and grace. "Compulsively readable, beautifully achieved, GRAFFITI CALCULUS follows the marks on time's walls--notches on a doorway as a boy outgrows a mother's reach, the tags of a son on mapless streetscapes, kilroy whose face marks the trail of empire's 'expendable' sons, a Paleolithic Boy who faces his beast with a line drawn on the cave wall--Mary-Sherman Willis has given us a brilliant, heretofore unwritten saga of mythic scope--the mother's journey--even to the underworld--in search of her son."--Eleanor Wilner "No matter what we name our children, they will seek their own identities. They will create for themselves an identity that goes with their name, even if it means changing that name, even if it means changing themselves physically and spiritually. All of us have taken part in this rite of passage. If we are parents, however, we are still baffled...