Mose (Paperback)
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Pages: 66
ISBN: 9780819512208
Published: 27th January 1995
Casemate UK Academic
Pages: 66
ISBN: 9780819512208
Published: 27th January 1995
Casemate UK Academic
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A striking interplay of content and style makes this book-length narrative poem a wrenching, compelling tale. Mose is incarcerated in a Texas prison for a crime whose circumstances slowly unfold as he numbers the days of his sentence and fantasizes about a woman inexorably tied to his fate. As the harshness of prison life begins to close in and distort Mose's consciousness, he is increasingly obsessed with the truth of what happened. In the end, that inquiry reveals to him "another world underneath / this one" where everything "is backwards / to what we want." The journey to that world is a suspenseful and powerful study of a man's character and the trap it sets for him.
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