The Destructive Element - 9780821412213

The Destructive ElementNew and Selected Poems\nAuthor(s): Turner Cassity\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Ohio University Press, United States\nImprint: Ohio University Press\nISBN-13: 9780821412213, 978-0821412213\nSynopsis\nTurner Cassity is like a highly accomplished traditional composerCamille Saint-Sans, say, or Richard Strausswho does not doubt that the music is the score and the score is the music. That is, poetry is verse and verse is poetry.\n Given that confidence, he is prepared to take on any subject. In the forty years he has been publishing, Mr. Cassity has never once written about nothing. Without being predictable, his material nevertheless has certain orientations: colonialism, the military, the Sun Belt, popular culture, Biblical figures, the Muslim countries, architecture, technology, bankingAlthough he can be a relentless satiristidealists are repeatedly savagedhe has surprising sympathies. NCO Clubs should erect a monument to him.\n Now and then he writes a personal.