The Threshold of the New (James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series) [Hardcover]

Henry Sloss (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1997 | Series: James Dickey Contemporary Poetry Series

The Threshold of the New , a book twenty-five years in the making, describes Henry Sloss's "exile" to Italy in the early 1970s and his reluctant but increasingly passionate commitment to the terms of life there. The story of an unwilling expatriate, Sloss has lost his job and leaves the United States in the last months of the Vietnam War with his wife and child to live abroad. That he and his family might end up living in Italy only dawns on them with time, as they come to realize their growing attachment to the world they find there and their deteriorating relations with the world they left behind.

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Editorial Reviews

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Aerogram From Umbria
After The Picnic
Between Lives
Bocca Di Leone
Calypso's Island
The Cat Songs
Civic Pride
The Darling & The Love
Death By Beauty
A Foreign Medium: 1. Tourists
A Foreign Medium: 2. A Visitor
A Foreign Medium: 3. Space
A Foreign Medium: 4. Mind Game
Greek Isle
Lesson From A Bestiary
Locus Amoenus
Love Letter
An Old World Setting: 1. Klaus' Case
An Old World Setting: 2. A Recipe For Marian
An Old World Setting: 3. Life Could Be A Dream
An Old World Setting: 4. In Summer's Wake
Olive Culture
On Top Of The World
The Parthenon
Penelope's Travels
Prospects From Gubbio
To Eurykleia
The Wedding At Vernazzano
-- Table of Poems from Poem Finder®

Product Details

• Hardcover: 95 pages
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press; First Edition edition (October 1, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570032343
• ISBN-13: 978-1570032349
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 6.2 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,087,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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