Coffee House, 1997. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. New/New. Still in publisher's original shrink-wrap! A perfect unread copy. 524 pages. Contents include; Where Do You Put the Horse?, Louis the Torch, Golden Delicious, Firebird, Three Plays, Mountaineers Are Always Free!, Araminta and the Coyotes, Huascaran, and The Wonderful White Whale of Kansas. F4400.

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Title: Paul Metcalf Collected Works, Volume Three 1987-1997
Publisher: Coffee House Press,, Minneapolis
Publication Date: 1997
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1566890624
ISBN 13: 9781566890625
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Condition: New
Dust Jacket Condition: New

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This volume completes the collected works of an American genius that Coffee House has helped rediscover.

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It is an interstate highway, a backbone, the dividing line between sanity and schizophrenia, a place within which to collect endless pathologies, "not a poem, not a novel, not a history, not a journal, yet at times some or all of these." It is, in other words, the second volume of Metcalf's Collected Works (see LJ 11/15/96 for a review of the first installment), an odd, exhilarating hybrid of a text somehow "based" on Interstate 57. In his method, Metcalf reminds us that the world is endlessly interesting; whatever is gleaned, even the strange or banal, matters to a story largely taken up in the interstices. An epic may be constructed solely out of place names from the 1968 U.S. Postal Service Zip Code Directory ("Zip Odes"); 19th-century mustachioed actors and any number of other associations may connect the stories of Poe and John Wilkes Booth; volcanic eruptions, invasions, and attacks and counterattacks are fabulously juxtaposed to comprise the record of Martinique?all of it threatening to overcome any notion of a legitimate, received history. Metcalf's project has been solitary and glacial in its undertaking, but readers would be at a serious deficit without it.?Steven R. Ellis, Pennsylvania State Univ. Libs., University Park
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