A History of Western Music: Poems by August Kleinzahler Manuel Vilas / our blends

/ our blends

empathy and humour

Child Ballad sings of midlife

As Marilyn Hacker has written

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A History of Western Music: Poems by August Kleinzahler Manuel Vilas / our blendsAs the title suggests, Father's Father's Father, is concerned with, among of things, an investigation of masculinity and family histories, the legacies of the past and the long shadow of the future. This finds expression through various modes, voices and cultural figures (such as private detectives, professional wrestlers and bodybuilders) but always in a poetic style that resists narrative completion and instead makes the reader question the desire