LETTER TO AN IMAGINARY FRIEND (PAPERBACK) IN SOUTH AFRICA

This item is sold brand new. It is ordered on demand from our supplier and is usually dispatched within 7 - 15 working days For thirty years, the late Thomas McGrath labored over his narrative epic poem, Letter to an Imaginary Friend, first publishing Part One in 1963 and finishing with Part Four in 1985. Now, Dale Jacobson, his colleague, has prepared an authoritative text of the whole poem working from McGrath's archival notes, making available for the first time in a single volume the greatest epic poem of our time. By turns modern and Homeric, McGrath's semi-autobiographical Letter explores American history, politics, and mythology, guided by the Blue Star Kachina of Hopi mythology as we move toward the poem's conclusion in the American heartland on Christmas Eve, criss-crossing the landscape in what Library Journal has called "a tremendous odyssey of sense and spirit". Features Summary One of the English language's great poems available for the first time in one volume. Author Thomas McGrath Publisher Copper Canyon Press,U.S. Release date 19950101 Pages 375 ISBN 1-55659-078-4 ISBN 13 978-1-55659-078-8