May's poems address a variety of subjects, from his father's alcoholism to his own encounters with Americans abroad to his period of mourning after his father's death. Reflective but never nostalgic, they probe America for answers: What explains our obsessively violent society? What release from our painful history can we hope to negotiate?
- ISBN10 0931122791
- ISBN13 9780931122798
- Publish Date 1 January 1995
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint University of New Mexico Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 71
- Language English