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In the Time of Assignments

Douglas A. Martin

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English
Soft Skull Press
01 January 2008
In the Time of Assignments transforms a decade's worth of feeling into a lyrical collection of verse. Readers familiar with Martin's work will find a repurposing and revelation of the foundations for his prior experiments in prose. The work is divided into three parts, each with a geographical marker indicating the narrator's evolving identity, from the formative, Red State landscape that colors the first section through the widening horizons, growing sexual awareness, and crush of experience found in the final two. The beautifully fragmentary narrative exhibited in Martin's novels takes hold here in long, poetic sequences and angled interludes; lyric is the steady underpinning.
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Imprint:   Soft Skull Press
Country of Publication:   United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions:   Height: 215mm,  Width: 139mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   265g
ISBN:   9780979663604
ISBN 10:   0979663601
Pages:   256
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Douglas A. Martin was born in Virginia and raised in Georgia. He earned a BA in English from the University of Georgia, an MFA in creative writing from the New School, and a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. Martin is the author of the poetry collections My Gradual Demise & Honeysuckle and Servicing the Salamander and co-author of The Haiku Year-a project that required him to compose a haiku a day. He has also published a collection of short stories, They Change the Subject, and a trilogy of prose pieces, Your Body Figured. His novels include Outline of My Lover, named an International Book of the Year in The Times Literary Supplement and a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award; Branwell- A Novel of the Brontèˆ Brother; Once You Go Back ; and Wolf.

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