America: A History in Verse, Volume 2 1940-1961

“Seething Nation! Vast & Flowing! Day & Night & Dawn!” Edward Sanders’ three-volume, America: A History in Verse is by turns angry, wistful, defiant and extremely funny re-inventions of historical and biographical worlds, a highly original mix of chronicle, anecdote, document, reportage, paean and polemic.

Volume 2 1940-1961 begins and ends with America on the brink of a war and great changes. Sanders’ reinventions of past worlds offer a moving masque of time constructed out of multiple narrative aspects and tones, skillfully and variously implemented by a poetic style of compacted history.

Black Sparrow Press; 422 pp. Signed on title page by the author. [YA3]

$ 60.00