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Shattered Hours
In Shattered Hours Gerry LaFemina creates a mosaic of America fusing fragments of broken histories, biographies, and cultural artifacts into a startling landscape of the late twentieth century. Chronicled in poems of verbal control and formal inventiveness and populated by personas both famous and obscure, this America is a place of "rock-n-roll, diners, [and] cars big enough for lovemaking / and rebellion" as well as "pan handlers, airplanes, [and] desire./ Always desire." It is this longing that is the central theme of the book a fitting collection for the millennium's end.
112 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 1997
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Gerry LaFemina
41 books69 followersGerry LaFemina believes poetry is the highest art form; believes everyone should rock out with a guitar at least once--even if they can't play; believes teaching is a calling; believes the New York City subways are beautiful (even if they smell badly); believes in love, bigfoot and other mythic creatures; believes in the power of a good meal, a good night's sleep, good wine, etc; believes laughter is a type of prayer....
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, LaFemina holds an MFA in Poetry from Western Michigan University as well as an MA in Literature with an emphasis on Twentieth-century Literature from WMU. He has taught at Nazareth College, Kirtland Community College, West Virginia University, Wheeling Jesuit University and Sarah Lawrence College. He directs the Center for Literary Arts at Frostburg State University, where he is an Associate Professor of English, and he serves as a poetry mentor in the Carlow University MFA program He divides his time between Maryland and New York.
A graduate of Sarah Lawrence College, LaFemina holds an MFA in Poetry from Western Michigan University as well as an MA in Literature with an emphasis on Twentieth-century Literature from WMU. He has taught at Nazareth College, Kirtland Community College, West Virginia University, Wheeling Jesuit University and Sarah Lawrence College. He directs the Center for Literary Arts at Frostburg State University, where he is an Associate Professor of English, and he serves as a poetry mentor in the Carlow University MFA program He divides his time between Maryland and New York.
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