
Doubles
Robert Polito
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Description
Doubles is at once tough-minded and urbane, veering from lyricism to street slang, oscillating with the beat of the American city. As his title suggests, Polito's world is one of doubling, simulation, impersonation, and mimicry--a shrewd vision of urban life.
Product Details
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Publish Date | October 20, 1995 |
Pages | 64 |
Language | English |
Type | |
EAN/UPC | 9780226673370 |
Dimensions | 9.2 X 6.4 X 0.5 inches | 0.7 pounds |
About the Author
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.
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