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Doubles

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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

PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
Publish DateOctober 20, 1995
Pages64
LanguageEnglish
TypeBook iconHardback
EAN/UPC9780226673370
Dimensions9.2 X 6.4 X 0.5 inches | 0.7 pounds
BISAC Categories: Poetry,

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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