Bücher von Jon Thompson

Organized around three sequences of numbered tercets, Notebook of Last Things maps a city undergoing dynamic, transformative change along with the sense of living that change-its rhythms and patterns, its peculiar commitments, its urgencies and pleasures as well as its inequalities, tensions, and fateful "unsaids."

Fascinated by strangeness that's made in the U.S.A.-its beliefs and organization, its affinity for violence and its elusive relationship with the past-Strange Country lyrically addresses itself to defining American landscapes/dreamscapes, and to their unaccountable beauty.

Presents the richness of classic American texts and their fraught relationship with a culture of violence and war. This book intends to restore a sense of the original strangeness of American literature and culture by pushing the boundaries of the essay form.