Testimony: The United States 1885-1915: Recitative AUTH-12266733 the writer Susan Sontag

the writer Susan Sontag

There really is none

and now divides his time between Toronto and Karachi

to the companion issue

back-packed in the Canadian Rockies and has climbed to the highest point in a dozen states across the country

Testimony: The United States 1885-1915: Recitative AUTH-12266733 the writer Susan SontagA milestone of modern poetry, American history comes to life in the actual words of victims and criminals in its courts. Taking as its raw material the voices of witnesses, victims, and perpetrators discovered by the author in criminal court transcripts, Charles Reznikoff's book length poem sets forth a stark panorama of late 19th and early 20th century America the underside of the Gilded Age, beset by racism and casual violence, poverty and disease.