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In these thoughtful, richly personal essays, Marianne Boruch takes a fresh view on old poets, considering such questions as how the atomic bomb changed William Carlos Williams's poetry and how Edison's listening, through his famous deafness, informs our sense of poetics. Other essays explore... read more
First Sentence
Among the astonishing things Thomas Edison helped manage in his lifetime-incandescent light, the phonograph, the electric chair-was a curious book, compiled by others and published in 1940, seventeen years after his death.
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- Marianne Boruch (Author)
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