The Discarded Life

Adam Kirsch

ISBN 10: 1636280153 / ISBN 13: 9781636280158

Published by Red Hen Press, US, 2022

About this Item

In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch uses Gen X landmarks-from Devo to Atari to the Challenger disaster-to tell a story of emotional and artistic coming of age, exploring universal questions of meaning, mortality, and how we become who we are.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Discarded Life
• Publisher: Red Hen Press, US
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1636280153
• ISBN 13: 9781636280158
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In these moving and meditative poems, Adam Kirsch shows how the experiences and recognitions of early life continue to shape us into adulthood. Richly evoking a 1980s childhood in Los Angeles, Kirsch uses Gen X landmarks—from Devo to Atari to the Challenger disaster—to tell a story of emotional and artistic coming of age, exploring universal questions of meaning, mortality, and how we become who we are.

About the Author

Adam Kirsch is a poet and critic whose writing appears regularly in The New Yorker and other publications. He is the author of three previous collections of poetry and several books of criticism and biography, and has received a Guggenheim Fellowship. An editor at the Wall Street Journal, he has taught at Columbia University and Sarah Lawrence College. He was born in Los Angeles and now lives in New York City.