XX: Poems for the Twentieth Century (Trade Paperback / Paperback) With sublime wit and a Whitmanian eye, McGrath delivers a stunning collection of warnings, love letters, and praise songs for all that manages to weather the perennial pressures of time- frog ponds, stadium rubble, and the endless cycle of seasons, which usher us deeper into an era we cannot yet know. " What follows is an urgent tour of landscapes-environmental, political, and personal-that reframes our perception of modern America and leads the reader into "An empire of rags and photons" where we must look to the past to clarify our futures. estruction- "the past / is paper / and the present, a match. Fever of Unknown Origin opens at a remote crossroads, where the speaker considers the intersection of history, beauty, and d. A collection of profound and piercing poems from a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, about navigating the modern world in search of beauty that will endure.
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